Armageddon Or Evolution?: The Scientific Method and Escalating World ProblemsWe are currently experiencing a wide range of evolving problems that threaten us with extinction. However, Phillips argues that we have the capacity-with the aid of a broad approach to the scientific method that builds on Mills's concept of "the sociological imagination"-to confront these problems ever more effectively. This book develops and builds upon new methods for addressing such social problems as global warming, terrorism, growing inequalities, and others. Phillips reveals procedures for achieving conscious evolution by uncovering fundamental assumptions and their contradictions and by moving toward alternative assumptions that promise to resolve these contradictions. |
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... chapters 1 through 11 ? In each of the eleven chapters , I illustrate both short - term tactics and a long - term strategy , culminating in my discussion of an " East - West strategy " in chapter 11. Al- though each chapter emphasizes a ...
... chapters 1 through 11 ? In each of the eleven chapters , I illustrate both short - term tactics and a long - term strategy , culminating in my discussion of an " East - West strategy " in chapter 11. Al- though each chapter emphasizes a ...
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... chapters . We can invoke science and technology in the organization of not only these chapters but also within each chapter . Each chapter is divided into two sections , with the first emphasizing a problem and the second emphasizing a ...
... chapters . We can invoke science and technology in the organization of not only these chapters but also within each chapter . Each chapter is divided into two sections , with the first emphasizing a problem and the second emphasizing a ...
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... chapters 6-8 on social structures and chapters 9-11 on the situation , as suggested in those chapter titles . We have already begun to examine the concept of " beliefs . " Let us note that it is paired with " assumptions . " The ...
... chapters 6-8 on social structures and chapters 9-11 on the situation , as suggested in those chapter titles . We have already begun to examine the concept of " beliefs . " Let us note that it is paired with " assumptions . " The ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Physical and Biological Structures | 23 |
Personality Structures | 57 |
Copyright | |
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Armageddon Or Evolution?: The Scientific Method and Escalating World Problems Bernard S. Phillips No preview available - 2011 |
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