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Making Our Futures: Sociological Knowledge and Social Change

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In this final chapter we argue that there is still a vital role for sociology to play in helping people to shape their own lives and build their own diverse futures. Despite all the doubts about the modernist project of progress through reason, sociology can still claim to offer vital insights to people in society about the possibilities and limits that face them.

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  1. Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge, UK

    Tony Bilton, Kevin Bonnett, Pip Jones, David Skinner, Michelle Stanworth & Andrew Webster

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© 1996 Tony Bilton, Kevin Bonnett, Pip Jones, David Skinner, Michelle Stanworth, Andrew Webster

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Bilton, T., Bonnett, K., Jones, P., Skinner, D., Stanworth, M., Webster, A. (1996). Making Our Futures: Sociological Knowledge and Social Change. In: Introductory Sociology. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24712-7_19

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