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. |
From inside the book
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... Society pamphlet (no. 536), 'Does society exist?' Authored by Brian Barry, an analytic philosopher who was then Professor of Political Theory at the London School of Economics (LSE), the pamphlet dutifully weighed the arguments on both ...
... Society pamphlet (no. 536), 'Does society exist?' Authored by Brian Barry, an analytic philosopher who was then Professor of Political Theory at the London School of Economics (LSE), the pamphlet dutifully weighed the arguments on both ...
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... society – has outlived its usefulness. According to the Commission, sociology had made sense over the previous 150 years, with the ascendancy of nation-states in the Europeanized world increasingly concerned with integrating diverse ...
... society – has outlived its usefulness. According to the Commission, sociology had made sense over the previous 150 years, with the ascendancy of nation-states in the Europeanized world increasingly concerned with integrating diverse ...
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... society above and beyond what (policy) clients or (student) constituents are willing to countenance. Yet, were they to view these matters from the grave, Durkheim and Weber could have finally agreed on the value of the term 'sociology ...
... society above and beyond what (policy) clients or (student) constituents are willing to countenance. Yet, were they to view these matters from the grave, Durkheim and Weber could have finally agreed on the value of the term 'sociology ...
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... society. It is as joint recipients of this legacy that the fates of social science and socialism have been sealed together. When, in the late 1970s, Foucaultian historiography and affiliated micro-sociologies were first regarded as ...
... society. It is as joint recipients of this legacy that the fates of social science and socialism have been sealed together. When, in the late 1970s, Foucaultian historiography and affiliated micro-sociologies were first regarded as ...
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... societies could be modelled and regulated like closed physical systems, based on a few operationally defined ... society' was still an object of natural history (as opposed to social engineering) and before nation-building became ...
... societies could be modelled and regulated like closed physical systems, based on a few operationally defined ... society' was still an object of natural history (as opposed to social engineering) and before nation-building became ...
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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