Social Theory

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
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 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
From Theorizing Our Gendered and Sexual Selves Feminist and Queer Theories From: Restless Ideas View Fernwood Publishing	For Women, the Struggle Continues … 374 The Wave Narrative of Feminism … 376 The Many Faces of Feminism Today … 385 Standpoint Theory … 392 Intersectionality Theory …	Tony Simmons	44	2020	$4.40 Add
From Theorizing Our Human Systems From: Restless Ideas View Fernwood Publishing	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 …	Tony Simmons	49	2020	$4.90 Add
From Theorizing Our Methodical Lives Ethnomethodology From: Restless Ideas View Fernwood Publishing	The Methods in Our Madness … 273 Studying the Common Sense Methods of Everyday Life … 275 What Ethnomethodologists Study … 281 The Vocabulary of Ethnomethodology … 282 …	Tony Simmons	38	2020	$3.80 Add
From Theorizing Our Shrinking World Globalization and Its Discontents From: Restless Ideas View Fernwood Publishing	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	Tony Simmons	52	2020	$5.20 Add
From Theorizing Our Social Selves Microsocial Theories of Symbolic Interaction and Dramaturgy From: Restless Ideas View Fernwood Publishing	The Rise of Microsocial Theories … 232 Other Microsocial Theories … 235 George Herbert Mead: Original Pioneer of Symbolic Interactionism … 239 The Vocabulary of Interactionism …	Tony Simmons	41	2020	$4.10 Add