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 3
... tendency, even among sociologists, to stereotype the sociology of knowledge as reducing complex patterns of thought ... tendencies that underscore the profundity of Alvin Gouldner's expression, 'welfare-warfare state': an unprecedented ...
... tendency, even among sociologists, to stereotype the sociology of knowledge as reducing complex patterns of thought ... tendencies that underscore the profundity of Alvin Gouldner's expression, 'welfare-warfare state': an unprecedented ...
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... tendency to envisage subjects in situations somewhat alien from their natural surroundings. The former grounds both the inquirer's accountability and autonomy, thereby overcoming the temptation toward irresponsible ventriloquism, while ...
... tendency to envisage subjects in situations somewhat alien from their natural surroundings. The former grounds both the inquirer's accountability and autonomy, thereby overcoming the temptation toward irresponsible ventriloquism, while ...
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... tendency to make it easier for humans to come in and out of existence, especially in terms that do not presume the human condition to be an unmitigated good. Bioliberalism is the biggest threat to the social sciences, as both a ...
... tendency to make it easier for humans to come in and out of existence, especially in terms that do not presume the human condition to be an unmitigated good. Bioliberalism is the biggest threat to the social sciences, as both a ...
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... tendencies (e.g. the temptation to sin, the submission to tradition), 'agency' implies the simple permission to express natural tendencies previously repressed (e.g. by the state). Before Hayek accepted the chair at the LSE in 1932 from ...
... tendencies (e.g. the temptation to sin, the submission to tradition), 'agency' implies the simple permission to express natural tendencies previously repressed (e.g. by the state). Before Hayek accepted the chair at the LSE in 1932 from ...
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... tendency to see democratization in terms of mass mobilization, which in turn imputed a spurious cognitive superiority to organized groups over the phenomenology of situated individuals (cf. Peukert, 1993: Chapter 8). Hayek aside ...
... tendency to see democratization in terms of mass mobilization, which in turn imputed a spurious cognitive superiority to organized groups over the phenomenology of situated individuals (cf. Peukert, 1993: Chapter 8). Hayek aside ...
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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