Social Theory

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The Mild West

The Mild West

The Myth of RCMP

From: National Dreams

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 … 49 $1.96 Add
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Theorizing Our Anxious Age

Theorizing Our Anxious Age

Theorists of Late Modernity

From: Restless Ideas

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 Class Divisions

Theorizing Our Class Divisions

Neo-Marxist and Post-Marxist Theories of Society

From: Restless Ideas

The Modern Legacy of Karl Marx … 138 The Many Faces of Contemporary Marxism … 147 Critical Theory … 150 Structuralist Marxism … 150 Post-Marxism … 164 The “Post” in … 43 $4.30 Add
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Theorizing Our Colonial Histories

Theorizing Our Colonial Histories

Indigenous Knowledge and Social Thought

From: Restless Ideas

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 Conflict Zones

Theorizing Our Conflict Zones

Conflict Theories of Society

From: Restless Ideas

The Human Habit of Social Conflict … 96 Optimism, Pessimism or Realism? … 100 Origins of Conflict Theory … 102 Modern Sociological Conflict Theory … 105 The Structural … 42 $4.20 Add
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Theorizing Our Discursive Lives

Theorizing Our Discursive Lives

Postmodernism and Poststructuralism

From: Restless Ideas

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 Dominated Lives

Theorizing Our Dominated Lives

Three Generations of Critical Theorists

From: Restless Ideas

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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Theorizing Our Gendered and Sexual Selves

Theorizing Our Gendered and Sexual Selves

Feminist and Queer Theories

From: Restless Ideas

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 Human Systems

Theorizing Our Human Systems

From: Restless Ideas

Systems Are Everywhere … 47 Living in Systems … 52 A Brief History of the Social System … 53 The Language of Social Systems Theory … 55 From Anthropology to Sociology … 49 $4.90 Add
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Theorizing Our Methodical Lives

Theorizing Our Methodical Lives

Ethnomethodology

From: Restless Ideas

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 Shrinking World

Theorizing Our Shrinking World

Globalization and Its Discontents

From: Restless Ideas

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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Theorizing Our Social Selves

Theorizing Our Social Selves

Microsocial Theories of Symbolic Interaction and Dramaturgy

From: Restless Ideas

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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Why Do We Theorize?

Why Do We Theorize?

From: Restless Ideas

Living on the Brink … 21 Social Theory in an Anxious Age … 23 An Age of Indeterminacy … 24 Looking Back at Twentieth-Century Sociological Theory … 27 Looking Around at … 26 $2.60 Add
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Your Majesty's Realm

Your Majesty’s Realm

The Myth of the Master Race

From: National Dreams

Canadian schoolchildren, who were taught to venerate Great Britain and its empire pledged allegiance to the monarch and sang "Rule Britannia" and "Soldiers of the Queen." … 63 $3.78 Add