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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... positivists and frequented by Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper (Hacohen, 2000: Chapter 5; Ebenstein, 2001: Chapter 5). These two Vienna Circles seeded the metascientific views of, respectively, the 'micro' and 'macro' perspectives in ...
... positivists and frequented by Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper (Hacohen, 2000: Chapter 5; Ebenstein, 2001: Chapter 5). These two Vienna Circles seeded the metascientific views of, respectively, the 'micro' and 'macro' perspectives in ...
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... positivism' and 'sociology'. Given the multiple definitions that are often attached to positivism, it is worth observing two senses in which the natural sciences might be seen as the basis for the social sciences. One, due to Francis ...
... positivism' and 'sociology'. Given the multiple definitions that are often attached to positivism, it is worth observing two senses in which the natural sciences might be seen as the basis for the social sciences. One, due to Francis ...
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... positivist' turn that increasingly marked the history of economics – in particular, a focus on formal models of idealized closed systems (à la Newtonian mechanics) and panglossian explanations for the distribution of resources in actual ...
... positivist' turn that increasingly marked the history of economics – in particular, a focus on formal models of idealized closed systems (à la Newtonian mechanics) and panglossian explanations for the distribution of resources in actual ...
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... positivism to lose its spirit, while preserving its letter. Consider the difference in social standing between Mill and Jevons, whose arguments overlapped in the 1860s. Mill was among the most politically visible of the utilitarians ...
... positivism to lose its spirit, while preserving its letter. Consider the difference in social standing between Mill and Jevons, whose arguments overlapped in the 1860s. Mill was among the most politically visible of the utilitarians ...
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Contents
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41 | |
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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