Armageddon or Evolution?
The Scientific Method and Escalating World Problems
1st Edition
Published on 30. April 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
260 pages
978-1-59451-607-8 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
black & white line drawings, figures
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59451-607-8 (9781594516078)
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Person
Bernard Phillips was a student of C. Wright Mills. He taught at the Universities of North Carolina, Illinois and Boston.
Content
Part I Introduction; Part II Physical and Biological Structures; Chapter 1 Flatland Versus Spaceland/Timeland; Chapter 2 Invisible Man Versus Visible Man; Part III Personality Structures; Chapter 3 "Heart": Alienation Versus Expressive Orientation; Chapter 4 "Head": Stratified or Bureaucratic Versus Evolutionary Worldview; Chapter 5 "Hand": Addiction Versus Meaningful and Expressive Rituals; Part IV Social Structures; Chapter 6 "Heart": Anomie Versus Cultural Value Fulfillment; Chapter 7 "Head": Bureaucratic Versus Scientific Worldview; Chapter 8 "Hand": Stratification Versus Conscious Evolution; partV The Situation; Chapter 9 "Heart": Negative Reinforcement Versus Positive Reinforcement; Chapter 10 "Head"; Chapter 11 "Hand": Conformity Versus Praxis;