Social Theory

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A Failure to Communicate

Facts are not Enough with George Lakoff

From: I'm Right and You're an Idiot

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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 … 7 $0.70 Add
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The Ideology of the Canoe

The Myth of Wilderness

From: National Dreams

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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, … 50 $2.50 Add
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Theorizing Our Dominated Lives

Three Generations of Critical Theorists

From: Restless Ideas

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The Critical Vision of the Frankfurt School … 181 The First Generation … 182 Herbert Marcuse … 187 The Second Generation … 194 Jürgen Habermas … 195 The Third … 51 $5.10 Add
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A Failure to Communicate

Matters of Concern with Bruno Latour

From: I'm Right and You're an Idiot

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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 … 12 $1.20 Add
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Theorizing Our Social Selves

Microsocial Theories of Symbolic Interaction and Dramaturgy

From: Restless Ideas

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The Rise of Microsocial Theories … 232 Other Microsocial Theories … 235 George Herbert Mead: Original Pioneer of Symbolic Interactionism … 239 The Vocabulary of Interactionism … 41 $4.10 Add
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Conclusion

History in an Age of Anxiety

From: National Dreams

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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 … 29 $0.58 Add
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Theorizing Our Methodical Lives

Ethnomethodology

From: Restless Ideas

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The Methods in Our Madness … 273 Studying the Common Sense Methods of Everyday Life … 275 What Ethnomethodologists Study … 281 The Vocabulary of Ethnomethodology … 282 … 38 $3.80 Add
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Theorizing Our Discursive Lives

Postmodernism and Poststructuralism

From: Restless Ideas

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The Postmodern Age … 311 What Is Postmodernism? … 314 Characteristics of Postmodernism … 315 The Roots of Postmodern Theories … 321 Michel Foucault: Pioneer of … 63 $6.30 Add
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Theorizing Our Gendered and Sexual Selves

Feminist and Queer Theories

From: Restless Ideas

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For Women, the Struggle Continues … 374 The Wave Narrative of Feminism … 376 The Many Faces of Feminism Today … 385 Standpoint Theory … 392 Intersectionality Theory … 44 $4.40 Add
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Theorizing Our Colonial Histories

Indigenous Knowledge and Social Thought

From: Restless Ideas

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Colonization and Knowledge … 418 Indigenous Knowledge … 421 The Decolonization of Indigenous Knowledge … 423 Indigenous Knowledge and Western Science: Beyond Contestation to … 23 $2.30 Add
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Theorizing Our Anxious Age

Theorists of Late Modernity

From: Restless Ideas

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What Is Late Modernity? … 441 From Modernism to Late Modernity: The Social Theories of Anthony Giddens and Pierre Bourdieu … 447 Structuration Theory of Anthony Giddens … 448 … 64 $6.40 Add
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Theorizing Our Shrinking World

Globalization and Its Discontents

From: Restless Ideas

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The Global Age … 505 The Many Voices of Globalization Theory … 512 Manuel Castells and the Network Society … 533 Ulrich Beck and the Risk Society … 538 References … 550 52 $5.20 Add
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The Expanding Universe of Social Theory

From: Restless Ideas

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From the Crumbling Western Canon to the Hidden Global Heritage … 559 References … 561 5 $0.50 Add
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Index

From: Restless Ideas

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