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 22
... sense, an Enlightenment legacy of which the nation-state and its agencies – not least universities – have been the main legal executors. However, the aspiration to become human need not be realized by Homo sapiens. History has thrown up ...
... sense, an Enlightenment legacy of which the nation-state and its agencies – not least universities – have been the main legal executors. However, the aspiration to become human need not be realized by Homo sapiens. History has thrown up ...
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... sense of reality that transcends the contingencies of place and time. This has been tied to a sense of knowing that is largely contemplative and sometimes even disempowering, especially when reality is identified with whatever resists ...
... sense of reality that transcends the contingencies of place and time. This has been tied to a sense of knowing that is largely contemplative and sometimes even disempowering, especially when reality is identified with whatever resists ...
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... sense, see Conant, 1959.) In other words, Murray cast the defenders of welfare policies as trying to force Blacks to be like themselves, that is, something other than Blacks are – or can be. In today's Newspeak, Murray respected (and ...
... sense, see Conant, 1959.) In other words, Murray cast the defenders of welfare policies as trying to force Blacks to be like themselves, that is, something other than Blacks are – or can be. In today's Newspeak, Murray respected (and ...
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... sense of citizenship as 'contribution to society', especially for purposes of raising and distributing revenue ... senses in which the natural sciences might be seen as the basis for the social sciences. One, due to Francis Bacon, simply ...
... sense of citizenship as 'contribution to society', especially for purposes of raising and distributing revenue ... senses in which the natural sciences might be seen as the basis for the social sciences. One, due to Francis Bacon, simply ...
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... sense of social solidarity among biologically unrelated individuals (i.e. 'citizens') by providing them with health, education and even minimal subsistence in return for political participation – most notably at elections and in war ...
... sense of social solidarity among biologically unrelated individuals (i.e. 'citizens') by providing them with health, education and even minimal subsistence in return for political participation – most notably at elections and in war ...
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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