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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... namely, the authors and authorized interpreters of the 'classics'. On the other hand, the history of the natural sciences can be told as a long struggle to erase whatever distinctions monotheistic societies have introduced to ...
... namely, the authors and authorized interpreters of the 'classics'. On the other hand, the history of the natural sciences can be told as a long struggle to erase whatever distinctions monotheistic societies have introduced to ...
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... namely, the privileging of human beings as the locus of value in nature. 'Orientalism' and 'Occidentalism' refer to the complementary ways in which denizens of traditionally Christian and Muslim cultures demonize each other for having ...
... namely, the privileging of human beings as the locus of value in nature. 'Orientalism' and 'Occidentalism' refer to the complementary ways in which denizens of traditionally Christian and Muslim cultures demonize each other for having ...
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... namely, that all social life, regardless of species, began from transactions among individuals whose identities rest on family membership. According to this logic, social formations that behave most like families (i.e. proto-racially) ...
... namely, that all social life, regardless of species, began from transactions among individuals whose identities rest on family membership. According to this logic, social formations that behave most like families (i.e. proto-racially) ...
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... namely, the aggregation of spontaneously generated events that vary around a natural tendency, or mean. Foucault (1975) himself had already invited this interpretation in his main methodological work, The Archaeology of Knowledge, with ...
... namely, the aggregation of spontaneously generated events that vary around a natural tendency, or mean. Foucault (1975) himself had already invited this interpretation in his main methodological work, The Archaeology of Knowledge, with ...
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... (namely the ability of individuals to move house to find work) and conceptually (namely family and guild prerogatives on the intergenerational transmission of property, trade, and craft). In contrast, Liberals promised freedom along both ...
... (namely the ability of individuals to move house to find work) and conceptually (namely family and guild prerogatives on the intergenerational transmission of property, trade, and craft). In contrast, Liberals promised freedom along both ...
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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