Research & Theory
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From ![]() NEW! Mad Epistemologies and Maddening the Ethics of Knowledge ProductionFrom: Unravelling Research |
In Chapter 6 authors Brenda A. LeFrançois and Jijian Voronka reflect on the politics of knowledge production concerning people historically labelled as mad, arguing for the maddening of both … | Brenda A. LeFrançois; Jijian Voronka | 26 | 2022 | $2.60 Add |
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From ![]() Making a LivingEconomies and Ecologies From: Making Sense of Society |
In Chapter 7, Khasnabish explores the diverse bundle of human activity that we often refer to as “economic activity,” which he refers to as “making a living.” The chapter focuses on exploring the … | Alex Khasnabish | 34 | 2022 | $3.40 Add |
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From ![]() Making Ethics More Legal, or Law More Ethical? |
The creatiion of a new ethics policy at SFU, disciplinary standards regarding ethics and law, the granting agencies clarify their position on ethics and law, three legal opinions on … | John Lowman; Ted Palys | 26 | 2014 | $2.60 Add |
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From ![]() Making Meaning, Making SenseCommunication and Belief From: Making Sense of Society |
In Chapter 6, Khasnabish explores some of the critical elements in our collective capacity to make sense out of the world. The chapter focuses on the use of language, and discusses topics … | Alex Khasnabish | 27 | 2022 | $2.70 Add |
![]() NEW! Making Sense of SocietyPower and Possibility |
Grounded in the sister disciplines of sociology and anthropology, this textbook is an accessible and critical introduction to contemporary social research. Alex Khasnabish eschews the common … | 273 | View | ||
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From ![]() Making SocietyBringing the World into Being From: Making Sense of Society |
In Chapter 3, Khasnabish examines social order as a complex amalgamation of material practices, relationships, institutions, and ideologies which create a society. In a very real sense, each of … | Alex Khasnabish | 26 | 2022 | $2.60 Add |
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From ![]() Mao’s Democracy |
This chapter begins with a brief account of Mao’s rise to power in China at the end of World War Two. It goes on to provide a historical account of his rise to power and the rise of the … | Michael Cormier | 21 | 2013 | $2.10 Add |
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From ![]() Meeting with the Ethics Committee |
Looks at meeting with the SFU’s ethics committee in their conduct in the Ogden Case | John Lowman; Ted Palys | 12 | 2014 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() Money in PoliticsThe Ethics of Election Finance Regulation and Expense Claims Oversight From: Honest Politics Now |
Examines attempts by federal and provincial governments, dating from the 1970s, to constrain undue influence by both publicizing and placing limits on campaign contributions and fundraisers. … | Ian Greene; Lori Turnbull; Robert Shepherd | 28 | 2017 | $2.80 Add |
![]() NEW! Myths of Modern HistoryFrom the French Revolution to the 20th century world wars and the Cold War - new perspectives on key events |
Revisionist historian Jacques R. Pauwels challenges readers to reconsider what they know about some key events in the last 250 years of world history. At a time when it’s all too easy to … | Jacques R. Pauwels | 392 | 2022 | View |
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From ![]() Neighbourhood |
John Kearney; Patrick Kerans | 13 | 2006 | $1.30 Add | |
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From ![]() New Zealand:Neo-Conservative Laboratory |
Case Study of the New Zealand and Performance Indicators in high educational institutions there | Donald C. Savage; William Bruneau | 26 | 2002 | $2.60 Add |
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From ![]() “Not Derived from the People”: Letter from the Fathers of Confederation to the British Colonial SecretaryFrom: Essential Readings in Canadian Government and Politics, 2nd Edition |
1858 letter drafted by Alexander Galt to promote the idea that the constitution of the proposed Canadian confederation be derived from the Imperial Parliament rather than be based on the American … | Debra Thompson; François Rocher; Peter Russell | 2 | 2015 | $0.20 Add |
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From ![]() Ogden v. SFU |
Ogden resolves to hold the univeristy responsible for his legal bills as a breach of contractual obligation between himself and the university as he followed every policy and procedue outlined to … | John Lowman; Ted Palys | 8 | 2014 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() Ogden’s Research on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide |
Beginning of their analysis of Russell Ogden’s case regarding the subpoena he received on his research into assisted suicide, looks at his history with Simon Fraser University’s … | John Lowman; Ted Palys | 11 | 2014 | $1.10 Add |
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From ![]() Our bodies, our minds, mental shortcuts, and the mediaFrom: Too Dumb for Democracy? |
Chapter Four focuses on why it is so difficult to make well informed discussions. The chapter explores our biological and psychological motivations behind our abilities towards good political … | David Moscrop | 27 | 2019 | $2.70 Add |













