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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... ( Mills , 1959 : 7 ) It was Mills's work that set the stage for the development of a scientific method broad enough to address the full complexity of human behavior , versus the near - universal simplistic approach of specialization with ...
... ( Mills , 1959 : 7 ) It was Mills's work that set the stage for the development of a scientific method broad enough to address the full complexity of human behavior , versus the near - universal simplistic approach of specialization with ...
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... Mills's doctoral dissertation , later published as Sociology and Pragma- tism : The Higher Learning in America ... Mills's interests in this direction , he edited a well - known collection of essays , From Max Weber ( Gerth and Mills ...
... Mills's doctoral dissertation , later published as Sociology and Pragma- tism : The Higher Learning in America ... Mills's interests in this direction , he edited a well - known collection of essays , From Max Weber ( Gerth and Mills ...
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... Mills's sense of problem or critical orientation firsthand as a student at Columbia College in the 1950s , where his courses influenced me to change my major from premed to sociology . I recall watching from an upstairs window as Mills ...
... Mills's sense of problem or critical orientation firsthand as a student at Columbia College in the 1950s , where his courses influenced me to change my major from premed to sociology . I recall watching from an upstairs window as Mills ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Physical and Biological Structures | 23 |
Personality Structures | 57 |
Copyright | |
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