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Gattung/Form: | Electronic books |
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Physisches Format | Print version: Fuller, Steve, 1959- New sociological imagination. London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2006 (DLC) 2005928700 |
Medienart: | Dokument, Internetquelle |
Dokumenttyp | Internet-Ressource, Computerdatei |
Alle Autoren: |
Steve Fuller |
ISBN: | 9780761947561 0761947566 9780761947578 0761947574 9781847877352 1847877354 9781446216385 1446216381 1446228436 9781446228432 1281240052 9781281240057 9786611240059 6611240055 |
OCLC-Nummer: | 290532378 |
Sprachhinweis: | English. |
Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (viii, 231 pages) |
Inhalt: | pt. 1: Desperately seeking sociology in the 21st century. Tales of the academic undead: the mysterious disappearance of society ; The social science at risk: a brief history of the stakes ; Socialism as the elusive synthesis at the heart of social science ; The problem of inheritance and socialism's ultimate retreat to naturalism ; Towards a renewal of welfare and the rediscovery of British sociology ; Interlude: today's Orwellian turn in social science -- pt. 2: The biological challenge to social science. The hidden biological past of classical social theory ; Making the difference between sociology and biology matter today ; Beware of Darwinists bearing leftist gifts: the struggle for Marx's successor ; Who (or what) deserves our sympathy? -- pt. 3: Humanity as the endangered species of our time. The coming world-historic struggle in science and religion ; Understanding the fundamentalist backlash against secularization ; Karma secularized: the Darwinian turn in development policy ; Might we become Nazis in paradise? -- Conclusion: Is there no escape from human nature? -- Glossary. |
Verfasserangabe: | Steve Fuller. |
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"Fuller is one of the most productive and critical writers in the history and philosophy of science and the social studies of science, technology, and society to use the title of his 1988 book. His current book is squarely within this tradition . . . Fuller raises significant questions concerning challenges to the concept of "humanity" posed by evolutionary psychology and the Darwinian Left on the one hand, and by developments in biotechnology and nanotechnology on the other hand." -- M. Oromaner Weiterlesen…

