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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... basis, it would still have a firm institutional basis – especially when universities happily restructure departments in response to market pressures. It is much too easy to justify the existence of sociology simply by pointing to the ...
... basis, it would still have a firm institutional basis – especially when universities happily restructure departments in response to market pressures. It is much too easy to justify the existence of sociology simply by pointing to the ...
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... basis for moral concern. Part Three projects this recent re-biologization of the social world on a larger world-historic canvas. Chapter 11 distils the issue into a clash of worldviews, albeit one that defies the current trend to define ...
... basis for moral concern. Part Three projects this recent re-biologization of the social world on a larger world-historic canvas. Chapter 11 distils the issue into a clash of worldviews, albeit one that defies the current trend to define ...
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... basis for reducing sociology to biology, namely, that all social life, regardless of species, began from transactions among individuals whose identities rest on family membership. According to this logic, social formations that behave ...
... basis for reducing sociology to biology, namely, that all social life, regardless of species, began from transactions among individuals whose identities rest on family membership. According to this logic, social formations that behave ...
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... basis for synthesis, given the 'agentic' (a.k.a. humanistic) bias of the early Marx and the 'structuralist' (a.k.a. economistic) bias of the later Marx (Bhaskar, 1979). (For a critique of this unfortunately enduring turn in social ...
... basis for synthesis, given the 'agentic' (a.k.a. humanistic) bias of the early Marx and the 'structuralist' (a.k.a. economistic) bias of the later Marx (Bhaskar, 1979). (For a critique of this unfortunately enduring turn in social ...
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... basis for the social sciences. One, due to Francis Bacon, simply involves the application of natural science theories and methods to social phenomena – a fairly straightforward case of what might be called 'reductionism' or 'scientism ...
... basis for the social sciences. One, due to Francis Bacon, simply involves the application of natural science theories and methods to social phenomena – a fairly straightforward case of what might be called 'reductionism' or 'scientism ...
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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