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 19
... today. (It would be interesting to trace the replacement of 'ideology' by 'culture' in sociology textbooks over the past quarter-century, charting the discursive shifts of such transitional 'soft Marxist' theorists as Raymond Williams ...
... today. (It would be interesting to trace the replacement of 'ideology' by 'culture' in sociology textbooks over the past quarter-century, charting the discursive shifts of such transitional 'soft Marxist' theorists as Raymond Williams ...
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... today's Newspeak, Murray respected (and reified) 'diversity'. He is no more (and no less) racist than Aristotle, to whom one should always turn for understanding the legitimation of this subtle humanities–natural sciences alliance ...
... today's Newspeak, Murray respected (and reified) 'diversity'. He is no more (and no less) racist than Aristotle, to whom one should always turn for understanding the legitimation of this subtle humanities–natural sciences alliance ...
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... today) providing a temporary safeguard in nations that have yet to master the laws of the market. As it turned out, a mere quartercentury's worth of political experience (roughly from the late 1940s to the late 1970s) was pumped up into ...
... today) providing a temporary safeguard in nations that have yet to master the laws of the market. As it turned out, a mere quartercentury's worth of political experience (roughly from the late 1940s to the late 1970s) was pumped up into ...
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... today, whereby research is actually conducted to ascertain people's attitudes prior to – not to mention independent of – the implementation of specific social policies. Mill's ghost would ask: Why not simply first provide tax relief to ...
... today, whereby research is actually conducted to ascertain people's attitudes prior to – not to mention independent of – the implementation of specific social policies. Mill's ghost would ask: Why not simply first provide tax relief to ...
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... today's bioliberal pundits, Jevons thought he was reporting on default patterns of human behaviour. Indeed, today's postmodern purveyors of identity politics, who aspire to a 'separate but equal' multiculturalism, say much the same ...
... today's bioliberal pundits, Jevons thought he was reporting on default patterns of human behaviour. Indeed, today's postmodern purveyors of identity politics, who aspire to a 'separate but equal' multiculturalism, say much the same ...
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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