Armageddon or Evolution?: The Scientific Method and Escalating World Problems (The Sociological Imagination)

Phillips, Bernard S

ISBN 10: 1594516073 / ISBN 13: 9781594516078

Published by Routledge, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Armageddon or Evolution?: The Scientific Method and Escalating World Problems (The Sociological Imagination)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1594516073
• ISBN 13: 9781594516078
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

We 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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Phillips, Bernard S