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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... become if she buys the product . She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others , an envy which will then justify her loving herself ... the publicity image steals her love of herself as she ...
... become if she buys the product . She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others , an envy which will then justify her loving herself ... the publicity image steals her love of herself as she ...
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... become " all about me and what I want right now . ” And we Americans want a lot . Now .... [ This is ] a symptom of a can't - say - no culture . As such , the problems that have us Americans more overweight than ever are problems that ...
... become " all about me and what I want right now . ” And we Americans want a lot . Now .... [ This is ] a symptom of a can't - say - no culture . As such , the problems that have us Americans more overweight than ever are problems that ...
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... become a simple exchange of ideas to be " consumed ” by the discussants . Nor yet is it a hostile , polemical argument between men who are committed neither to the naming of the world , nor to the search for truth , but rather to the ...
... become a simple exchange of ideas to be " consumed ” by the discussants . Nor yet is it a hostile , polemical argument between men who are committed neither to the naming of the world , nor to the search for truth , but rather to the ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Physical and Biological Structures | 23 |
Personality Structures | 57 |
Copyright | |
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