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. |
From inside the book
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... sciences from the humanities and the natural sciences was the retreat of state power over civil society, rather than any decisive set of empirical findings, let alone a philosophically inspired realization of the pernicious nature of ...
... sciences from the humanities and the natural sciences was the retreat of state power over civil society, rather than any decisive set of empirical findings, let alone a philosophically inspired realization of the pernicious nature of ...
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... scientists are the Academic Undead should be clear: Our opponents are trying to turn ... natural tendency to Big Brother's advantage. Yet, the torrent of academic ... sciences as the standard-bearers of modernity. Indeed, his great leap ...
... scientists are the Academic Undead should be clear: Our opponents are trying to turn ... natural tendency to Big Brother's advantage. Yet, the torrent of academic ... sciences as the standard-bearers of modernity. Indeed, his great leap ...
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... sciences marks an important stage in the secularization of the monotheistic religious perspective represented by ... natural sciences and the humanities. On the one hand, the natural sciences traditionally have presupposed that ...
... sciences marks an important stage in the secularization of the monotheistic religious perspective represented by ... natural sciences and the humanities. On the one hand, the natural sciences traditionally have presupposed that ...
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... natural sciences against an independent social scientific standpoint should consider the career of Charles Murray, an American devotee of the Mises Circle who co-authored the notorious anti-welfarist best seller, The Bell Curve ...
... natural sciences against an independent social scientific standpoint should consider the career of Charles Murray, an American devotee of the Mises Circle who co-authored the notorious anti-welfarist best seller, The Bell Curve ...
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... natural sciences might be seen as the basis for the social sciences. One, due to Francis Bacon, simply involves the application of natural science theories and methods to ... science – is also the one with the. 25 The Social Sciences at Risk.
... natural sciences might be seen as the basis for the social sciences. One, due to Francis Bacon, simply involves the application of natural science theories and methods to ... science – is also the one with the. 25 The Social Sciences at Risk.
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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