ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |21 pages
Introduction
part |34 pages
Physical and Biological Structures
chapter |14 pages
Flatland Versus Spaceland/Timeland
chapter |18 pages
Invisible Man Versus Visible Man
part |54 pages
Personality Structures
chapter |16 pages
“Heart”: Alienation Versus Expressive Orientation
chapter |18 pages
“Head”: Stratified or Bureaucratic Versus Evolutionary Worldview
chapter |18 pages
“Hand”: Addiction Versus Meaningful and Expressive Rituals
part |54 pages
Social Structures
chapter |18 pages
“Heart”: Anomie Versus Cultural Value Fulfillment
chapter |16 pages
“Head”: Bureaucratic Versus Scientific Worldview
chapter |16 pages
“Hand”: Stratification Versus Conscious Evolution
part |58 pages
The Situation