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 27
... species-based human nature.The distinctiveness of meaning attributions points to irreducible differences in personal histories, whereas the concept of welfare presupposes that humanity can collectively transcend the fatalism implied in ...
... species-based human nature.The distinctiveness of meaning attributions points to irreducible differences in personal histories, whereas the concept of welfare presupposes that humanity can collectively transcend the fatalism implied in ...
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... species-unique linguistic capacities. Nevertheless, 'species egalitarianism' has expanded beyond Peter Singer's 'animal liberation' movement, as greater comparative research into humans and other animals tends to minimize the ...
... species-unique linguistic capacities. Nevertheless, 'species egalitarianism' has expanded beyond Peter Singer's 'animal liberation' movement, as greater comparative research into humans and other animals tends to minimize the ...
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... species have been accorded an unprecedented moral respectability among the bien pensant. Of course, the devolution of state authority has rendered the drive to eradicate such 'pathological' formations less direct than in the heyday of ...
... species have been accorded an unprecedented moral respectability among the bien pensant. Of course, the devolution of state authority has rendered the drive to eradicate such 'pathological' formations less direct than in the heyday of ...
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... species, while Neo-Liberals believe that the state inhibits everyone's – not merely the poor's – enterprising spirit. The ideological space marked by this pre- and post-socialist world is captured in Table 3.1. I should immediately say ...
... species, while Neo-Liberals believe that the state inhibits everyone's – not merely the poor's – enterprising spirit. The ideological space marked by this pre- and post-socialist world is captured in Table 3.1. I should immediately say ...
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... Species egalitarian 21st century Ecologism 19th century Liberalism dimensions: on the one hand, Liberals wanted to sever people's hereditary ties to the land that legally inhibited the construction of factories and people living near ...
... Species egalitarian 21st century Ecologism 19th century Liberalism dimensions: on the one hand, Liberals wanted to sever people's hereditary ties to the land that legally inhibited the construction of factories and people living near ...
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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