Social Theory

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
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 Circle Widens From: Belonging View House of Anansi Press	In this chapter, Clarkson examines how human belonging extends from family bonds into the wider community	Adrienne Clarkson	41	2014	$4.10 Add
The City of Words House of Anansi Press	In the 2007 CBC Massey Lectures, Alberto Manguel leads us back into our literary tradition to find insight about one of the most contentious issues of our time: the rise of ethnic nationalism. …	Alberto Manguel	178	2007	View
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
From The Opportunity of All Time From: The Universe Within View House of Anansi Press	In this chapter, Turok examines humanity’s twenty-first century crossroads, where digital technology, quantum computing, and the limits of classical physics converge.	Neil Turkok	59	2012	$5.90 Add
From The Tablets of Gilgamesh From: The City of Words View House of Anansi Press	In this chapter, Manguel examines The Epic of Gilgamesh as a lens for understanding human identity and otherness.	Alberto Manguel	25	2007	$2.50 Add
The Triumph of Narrative House of Anansi Press	Narrative has been central to human life for millennia, and the twentieth century has been preeminently the age of the story. Mass culture and mass leisure have enabled us to spend far more time …	Robert Fulford	173	1999	View
From Theorizing Our Anxious Age Theorists of Late Modernity From: Restless Ideas View Fernwood Publishing	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 …	Tony Simmons	64	2020	$6.40 Add
From Theorizing Our Class Divisions Neo-Marxist and Post-Marxist Theories of Society From: Restless Ideas View Fernwood Publishing	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 …	Tony Simmons	43	2020	$4.30 Add
From Theorizing Our Colonial Histories Indigenous Knowledge and Social Thought From: Restless Ideas View Fernwood Publishing	Colonization and Knowledge … 418 Indigenous Knowledge … 421 The Decolonization of Indigenous Knowledge … 423 Indigenous Knowledge and Western Science: Beyond Contestation to …	Tony Simmons	23	2020	$2.30 Add
From Theorizing Our Conflict Zones Conflict Theories of Society From: Restless Ideas View Fernwood Publishing	The Human Habit of Social Conflict … 96 Optimism, Pessimism or Realism? … 100 Origins of Conflict Theory … 102 Modern Sociological Conflict Theory … 105 The Structural …	Tony Simmons	42	2020	$4.20 Add
From Theorizing Our Discursive Lives Postmodernism and Poststructuralism From: Restless Ideas View Fernwood Publishing	The Postmodern Age … 311 What Is Postmodernism? … 314 Characteristics of Postmodernism … 315 The Roots of Postmodern Theories … 321 Michel Foucault: Pioneer of …	Tony Simmons	63	2020	$6.30 Add
From Theorizing Our Dominated Lives Three Generations of Critical Theorists From: Restless Ideas View Fernwood Publishing	The Critical Vision of the Frankfurt School … 181 The First Generation … 182 Herbert Marcuse … 187 The Second Generation … 194 Jürgen Habermas … 195 The Third …	Tony Simmons	51	2020	$5.10 Add