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 17
... welfare economics drew epistemic sustenance from this perspective and, through Viennese émigrés like Paul Lazarsfeld, professionalized US social science in the Cold War era, mainly by the development of sophisticated quantitative ...
... welfare economics drew epistemic sustenance from this perspective and, through Viennese émigrés like Paul Lazarsfeld, professionalized US social science in the Cold War era, mainly by the development of sophisticated quantitative ...
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... welfare state). Giddens' consistent scepticism about the prospects for organized movements of the sort traditionally represented by trade unions and class-based politics has led him to call for a shift in the political centre of gravity ...
... welfare state). Giddens' consistent scepticism about the prospects for organized movements of the sort traditionally represented by trade unions and class-based politics has led him to call for a shift in the political centre of gravity ...
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... welfare expenditure. Given his prior libertarian reputation, Murray was interpreted as simply advocating the end of state-sponsored welfare programmes. In fact, he was mainly concerned that Blacks were judged against a purely ...
... welfare expenditure. Given his prior libertarian reputation, Murray was interpreted as simply advocating the end of state-sponsored welfare programmes. In fact, he was mainly concerned that Blacks were judged against a purely ...
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... welfare. Statecraft thus had to go beyond the usual threats and deceptions, since rulers were now expected, as Adam Smith would say, to increase the wealth of their nations. This historic change of attitude had three important ...
... welfare. Statecraft thus had to go beyond the usual threats and deceptions, since rulers were now expected, as Adam Smith would say, to increase the wealth of their nations. This historic change of attitude had three important ...
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... welfare. The former captures what marks the social sciences from the natural sciences, the latter what marks it from the humanities. Both words have been invoked to call into question the status of a species-based human nature.The ...
... welfare. The former captures what marks the social sciences from the natural sciences, the latter what marks it from the humanities. Both words have been invoked to call into question the status of a species-based human nature.The ...
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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