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 21
... perhaps cynical – civil servant viewed the state in more reactive and less expectant terms. For Tarde, the regular occurrence of deviance was sufficient to justify the state as a vehicle of containment (not transformation), at least ...
... perhaps cynical – civil servant viewed the state in more reactive and less expectant terms. For Tarde, the regular occurrence of deviance was sufficient to justify the state as a vehicle of containment (not transformation), at least ...
Page 29
... perhaps – corroborates the same tendency. It is not quite a return to the original Greco-Roman paganism (though Charles Murray comes close), but it does share the same element of what Heidegger called our 'thrownness' into a world not ...
... perhaps – corroborates the same tendency. It is not quite a return to the original Greco-Roman paganism (though Charles Murray comes close), but it does share the same element of what Heidegger called our 'thrownness' into a world not ...
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... Perhaps unsurprisingly it took even less time to demonstrate, with equal conclusiveness, that Marx had been wrong all along. To be sure, US sociology departments were already paving the way for the post-Marxist 're-liberalization' of ...
... Perhaps unsurprisingly it took even less time to demonstrate, with equal conclusiveness, that Marx had been wrong all along. To be sure, US sociology departments were already paving the way for the post-Marxist 're-liberalization' of ...
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... perhaps because his or her identity is bound up with the very process of wealth creation? Why then should this person be coerced – say, via taxation – to support people who, had they the wherewithal, would have already provided ...
... perhaps because his or her identity is bound up with the very process of wealth creation? Why then should this person be coerced – say, via taxation – to support people who, had they the wherewithal, would have already provided ...
Page 35
... Perhaps the only substantive difference between the postmodernists and the bioliberals is that the former believe in the spontaneous aggregation of self-expression along sociologically salient lines. But at least the bioliberals have ...
... Perhaps the only substantive difference between the postmodernists and the bioliberals is that the former believe in the spontaneous aggregation of self-expression along sociologically salient lines. But at least the bioliberals have ...
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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