Social Theory

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From A Failure to Communicate Facts are not Enough with George Lakoff From: I'm Right and You're an Idiot View New Society Publishers	Lakoff described frames as metaphors and conceptual frameworks that we use to interpret and understand the world. They give meaning to the words we hear more than the other way around, because …	James Hoggan	7	2016	$0.70 Add
From A Failure to Communicate Matters of Concern with Bruno Latour From: I'm Right and You're an Idiot View New Society Publishers	Latour told me we should put aside matters of fact and focus instead upon matters of concern, a conclusion he arrived at after having studied everything from environmental crises to atmospheres …	James Hoggan	12	2016	$1.20 Add
From NEW! Civil Power and the New Legitimacy From: Civilizing the State View New Society Publishers	In Civil Power and the New Legitimacy, the author first looks at the origins of civil power, mass mobilizations and civil society, starting in ancient Greece. He also considers the connection …	John Restakis	17	2021	$1.70 Add
From Conclusion History in an Age of Anxiety From: National Dreams View Arsenal Pulp Press	Many Canadians are afflicted by perseveration of memory. They repeat the familiar myths of our history even as they must know that they no longer explain much about us. History is a …	Daniel Frances	29	1997	$0.58 Add
From Divided We Stand The Myth of Heroism From: National Dreams View Arsenal Pulp Press	It has often been observed that English Canada has not produced many heroes. The overwhelming influence of American culture on Canadian lives has inhibited the emergence of homegrown greatness. …	Daniel Frances	42	1997	$1.68 Add
From Making Tracks The Myth of CPR From: National Dreams View Arsenal Pulp Press	The myth of the CPR as creator of the country is, in fact, as old as the railway itself, which is not surprising given that it was the railway itself which created the myth. The mundane act of …	Daniel Frances	39	1997	$1.17 Add
National Dreams Myth, Mystery, and Canadian History Arsenal Pulp Press	As Canadians, we remember the stories told to us in high-school history class as condensed images of the past—the glorious Mountie, the fearsome Native, the Last Spike. National …	Daniel Frances	217	1997	View
From Smashing Heads Doesn’t Open Minds Morality Binds and Blinds with Jonathan Haidt From: I'm Right and You're an Idiot View New Society Publishers	Ingrained, tribal behaviors can bind and blind us, and shut down open-minded thinking. Looking at the dynamic of polarization from the point of view of tribes and teams is enlightening and useful …	James Hoggan	9	2016	$0.90 Add
From Smashing Heads Doesn’t Open Minds Why We Want to be Misled with Dan Kahan From: I'm Right and You're an Idiot View New Society Publishers	Group values impact risk perceptions and how our interpretation of scientific evidence is shaped by our cultural affiliations. Cultural cognition describes the tendency of individuals to conform …	James Hoggan	8	2016	$0.80 Add
From The Ideology of the Canoe The Myth of Wilderness From: National Dreams View Arsenal Pulp Press	The canoe is omnipresent in Canadian history and folklore. Canadians feel that the canoe is a fundamental icon of our nationality, representing as it does our links to our history, to our land, …	Daniel Frances	50	1997	$2.50 Add
From The Infantilization of Quebec The Myth of Unity From: National Dreams View Arsenal Pulp Press	The author presents the opposing view points on the Battle of Quebec. For generations, while Quebec historians characterized the Battle of Quebec as a catastrophe, English-Canadian historians …	Daniel Frances	49	1997	$1.96 Add
From The Mild West The Myth of RCMP From: National Dreams View Arsenal Pulp Press	For a hundred years the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has occupied a special place in Canadian history and our imaginations. The story of how they drove out the American whiskey peddlers and …	Daniel Frances	49	1997	$1.96 Add