The New Sociological ImaginationSAGE, 2006 M02 7 - 240 pages C. Wright Mills′ classic The Sociological Imagination has inspired generations of students to study Sociology. However, the book is nearly half a century old. What would a book address, aiming to attract and inform students in the 21st century? This is the task that Steve Fuller sets himself in this major new invitation to study Sociology. The book:
This book sets the agenda for imagining sociology in the 21st century and will attract students and professionals alike. |
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Page 14
... knowledge disintegrates, as interest in some aspects of social life attract attention at the expense of others of potentially equal import. Durkheim's and Weber's contributions to the foundation of sociology appear Janus-faced because ...
... knowledge disintegrates, as interest in some aspects of social life attract attention at the expense of others of potentially equal import. Durkheim's and Weber's contributions to the foundation of sociology appear Janus-faced because ...
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... knowledge' in reaction to what he took to be the artificial collectivization of sentiment made possible by the emergence of tabloid newspapers and broadcast radio in the 1920s (Prendergast, 1986). Schutz was extending a point already ...
... knowledge' in reaction to what he took to be the artificial collectivization of sentiment made possible by the emergence of tabloid newspapers and broadcast radio in the 1920s (Prendergast, 1986). Schutz was extending a point already ...
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... knowledge about where society will or should go, since social agents are themselves 'always already' social theorists. Indeed, Giddens' brand of reflexivity enables the social researcher to offload (or 'delegate', in Bruno Latour's ...
... knowledge about where society will or should go, since social agents are themselves 'always already' social theorists. Indeed, Giddens' brand of reflexivity enables the social researcher to offload (or 'delegate', in Bruno Latour's ...
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... Knowledge, with his conception of texts as sites for registering the 'frequency' and 'distribution' of utterance. It is worth recalling that this work was a reflection on the method deployed in The Order of Things, which claimed to have ...
... Knowledge, with his conception of texts as sites for registering the 'frequency' and 'distribution' of utterance. It is worth recalling that this work was a reflection on the method deployed in The Order of Things, which claimed to have ...
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... and socialism came into being (Polanyi, 1944). In the process, the distinctly aspirational character of social scientific knowledge comes to be dismissed as a nightmare from which we – or at least. 21 Tales of the Academic Undead.
... and socialism came into being (Polanyi, 1944). In the process, the distinctly aspirational character of social scientific knowledge comes to be dismissed as a nightmare from which we – or at least. 21 Tales of the Academic Undead.
Contents
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Chapter 5 Towards a Renewal of Welfare and the Rediscovery of British Sociology | 54 |
Todays Orwellian Turn in Social Science | 62 |
Chapter 10 Who or What Deserves Our Sympathy? | 118 |
Humanity as the Endangered Species of Our Times | 129 |
Chapter 11 The Coming WorldHistoric Struggle in Science and Religion | 131 |
Chapter 12 Understanding the Fundamentalist Backlash against Secularism | 147 |
The Sarwinian Turn in Development Policy | 161 |
Chapter 14 Might we become Nazis in Paradise? | 183 |
Is there no Escape from Human Nature? | 196 |
Glossary | 206 |
The Biological Challenge to Social Science | 77 |
Chapter 7 The Hidden Biological Past of Classical Social Theory | 79 |
Chapter 8 Making the Difference between Sociology and Biology Matter Today | 90 |
The Struggle for Marxs Successor | 107 |
References | 215 |
Index | 228 |
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