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
... political waters (Proctor, 1991: Part 2). A century later, sociology may be academically institutionalized, yet the mirror image of this problem arises on two fronts: on the one hand, eager-toplease 'evidence-based-policy' researchers ...
... political waters (Proctor, 1991: Part 2). A century later, sociology may be academically institutionalized, yet the mirror image of this problem arises on two fronts: on the one hand, eager-toplease 'evidence-based-policy' researchers ...
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... politics more generally, faded. Now their views were more likely to be seen in tandem with the emerging neo-liberal sensibility championed by that Thatcherite guru of political economy, Friedrich von Hayek. An important semantic marker ...
... politics more generally, faded. Now their views were more likely to be seen in tandem with the emerging neo-liberal sensibility championed by that Thatcherite guru of political economy, Friedrich von Hayek. An important semantic marker ...
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... political writings, which would have the public recognize that the complexity of the modern world requires the 'professionalization' of politics, a consequence of which is that ordinary citizens would learn more but know less. 17 Tales ...
... political writings, which would have the public recognize that the complexity of the modern world requires the 'professionalization' of politics, a consequence of which is that ordinary citizens would learn more but know less. 17 Tales ...
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... politics has led him to call for a shift in the political centre of gravity from 'welfare' to 'lifestyle' (Giddens, 1994; cf. Fuller, 1995). Schutz would smile. As Giddens has stressed from his earliest methodological writings, the ...
... politics has led him to call for a shift in the political centre of gravity from 'welfare' to 'lifestyle' (Giddens, 1994; cf. Fuller, 1995). Schutz would smile. As Giddens has stressed from his earliest methodological writings, the ...
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... politics', the Newspeak for normatively self-sufficient deviant groups. As the political fortunes of Marxist universalism declined on the world stage, the negative concept of ideology, which implied a self-serving sense of self ...
... politics', the Newspeak for normatively self-sufficient deviant groups. As the political fortunes of Marxist universalism declined on the world stage, the negative concept of ideology, which implied a self-serving sense of self ...
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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