And, as in any other ancestral saga (being part-myth and part-autobiography) 'we, the people' are holding out and holding forth on the verge of species extinction. In this context, what we have made out of the technological capital available since the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution is an epoch in which sociology becomes history or perhaps a tragic-comic tale. In this book, they take sociology on a trip across the universe - the cosmic order - in which the place, status and future of homo sapiens appears increasingly threatened and at risk. The authors, Dickens and Omrod, take their cue from Best and Kellner's ( 2001) reconnection of the missing human link between what is perceived through both the microscopic and the telescopic lenses of scientific instrumentation. Cosmic Society: Towards a Sociology of the UniverseĬosmologically speaking, Cosmic Sociology: Towards a Sociology of the Universe brings humanity back into the big picture, which (since Kepler, Copernicus, Newton and the gang) has been progressively occluded from the grander scientific worldview.
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