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 vii
... sense of just how much the world has changed since Mills' day can be gleaned by glancing at the terms and definitions listed in this book's Glossary, only about half of which he would recognize. I have delivered parts of this book on ...
... sense of just how much the world has changed since Mills' day can be gleaned by glancing at the terms and definitions listed in this book's Glossary, only about half of which he would recognize. I have delivered parts of this book on ...
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... sense data, explicit logic and verifiable procedures, truth was often delegated to divinely anointed experts, if it did not elude human comprehension altogether. In a time when the distinctiveness of humanity is itself at risk, it ...
... sense data, explicit logic and verifiable procedures, truth was often delegated to divinely anointed experts, if it did not elude human comprehension altogether. In a time when the distinctiveness of humanity is itself at risk, it ...
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... sense of loca- tion and destination in history. If people's minds simply reflected their environments, there would be no need for the sociology of knowledge. Empiricism or perhaps phenomenology would do the trick. However, people are ...
... sense of loca- tion and destination in history. If people's minds simply reflected their environments, there would be no need for the sociology of knowledge. Empiricism or perhaps phenomenology would do the trick. However, people are ...
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... sense of 'social selection': religious, academic and political. First, the universalist aspiration of Christianity provided the basis on which Auguste Comte proposed sociology as a science aimed specifically at bringing certain animals ...
... sense of 'social selection': religious, academic and political. First, the universalist aspiration of Christianity provided the basis on which Auguste Comte proposed sociology as a science aimed specifically at bringing certain animals ...
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... sense over the previous 150 years, with the ascendancy of nation-states in the Europeanized world increasingly concerned with integrating diverse peoples in terms of a set of sub-systems, each fulfilling an essential social function, to ...
... sense over the previous 150 years, with the ascendancy of nation-states in the Europeanized world increasingly concerned with integrating diverse peoples in terms of a set of sub-systems, each fulfilling an essential social function, to ...
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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