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 15
... theory that props up Wallerstein's gloomy prognosis for the future of social science as a whole, see Fuller (1998a, b).) Perhaps a death rattle from sociology's pedagogical trenches may be heard in courses relating to something called ...
... theory that props up Wallerstein's gloomy prognosis for the future of social science as a whole, see Fuller (1998a, b).) Perhaps a death rattle from sociology's pedagogical trenches may be heard in courses relating to something called ...
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... theory' in the Marxist sense of a second-order epistemological critique with a less threatening Wittgensteinian first-order mapping of the lived social ontology, or 'lifeworld', a project comfortably nestled between Winch (1958) and ...
... theory' in the Marxist sense of a second-order epistemological critique with a less threatening Wittgensteinian first-order mapping of the lived social ontology, or 'lifeworld', a project comfortably nestled between Winch (1958) and ...
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... theories and methods to social phenomena – a fairly straightforward case of what might be called 'reductionism' or 'scientism'. However, Comte's own view presupposes a more reflexive attitude toward the history of science: as the ...
... theories and methods to social phenomena – a fairly straightforward case of what might be called 'reductionism' or 'scientism'. However, Comte's own view presupposes a more reflexive attitude toward the history of science: as the ...
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... theory and practice. In theory, everyone should flourish with the liberalization of markets. Yet, in practice, even when the poor increased their income, it was never enough to catch up with the increases in wealth made by the rich. The ...
... theory and practice. In theory, everyone should flourish with the liberalization of markets. Yet, in practice, even when the poor increased their income, it was never enough to catch up with the increases in wealth made by the rich. The ...
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... theories of succession presupposed rather ancient biological views about the passage of competence across generations of family members that created grounds for a son's entitlement to manage his father's estate or assume his trade (for ...
... theories of succession presupposed rather ancient biological views about the passage of competence across generations of family members that created grounds for a son's entitlement to manage his father's estate or assume his trade (for ...
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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