Introductory
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 How Societies WorkClass, Power, and Change |
In 2011, protesters around the world – including Canada – called for changes to the societies in which they live. Many observers were asking: “What do they want?” Some … | Joanne Naiman | 367 | 2012 | View |
 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 … | Alex Khasnabish | 273 | 2022 | View |
 NEW! Unravelling ResearchThe Ethics and Politics of Research in the Social Sciences |
Unravelling Research is about the ethics and politics of knowledge production in the social sciences at a time when the academy is pressed to contend with the historical inequities associated … | Teresa Macías | 241 | 2022 | View |
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From NEW! IntroductionUnravelling Research From: Unravelling Research |
In Chapter 1, author Teresa Macías explains the intentions behind this edited collection, which serves to centre the authors’ own research work as material foundation for analyses that … | Teresa Macías | 18 | 2022 | $1.80 Add |
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From NEW! Introduction: Beyond the SilosToward a Social Justice Social Science From: Making Sense of Society |
In the introduction author Alex Khasnabish explains how the primary purpose of this book is to critically explore what social research is, what it does, and what it is and isn’t good for. … | Alex Khasnabish | 5 | 2022 | $0.50 Add |
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From Society and the Study of SocietyFrom: How Societies Work |
- | Joanne Naiman | 24 | 2012 | $3.84 Add |
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From NEW! Becoming HumanDiversity and Evolution From: Making Sense of Society |
In Chapter 1, Khasnabish and co-author Anthony Davis explore what it means to be human, teasing out the interconnected relationship between our biological and social evolutions. The chapter … | Alex Khasnabish | 26 | 2022 | $2.60 Add |
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From Is Human Behaviour the Result of Our Biology?From: How Societies Work |
- | Joanne Naiman | 20 | 2012 | $3.20 Add |
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From NEW! Latina Knowledge Production and the Ethics of AmbiguityFrom: Unravelling Research |
In Chapter 2, authors Vannina Sztainbok and Lorena M. Gajardo examine the ethics of ambiguity when engaging in research within the geopolitical structures that continue to rely on the … | Lorena M. Gajardo; Vannina Sztainbok | 24 | 2022 | $2.40 Add |
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From Culture, Society, and HistoryFrom: How Societies Work |
- | Joanne Naiman | 22 | 2012 | $3.52 Add |
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From NEW! Doing Social ResearchIntentionally Exploring Social Life From: Making Sense of Society |
In Chapter 2, Khasnabish examines the process of how social research is conducted by anthropologists, sociologists, and practitioners in other related disciplines and the problems that can arise … | Alex Khasnabish | 39 | 2022 | $3.90 Add |
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From NEW! Dwelling in the Ethical Quicksand of Archival Research Violence and Representation in the Telling of Terror StoriesFrom: Unravelling Research |
In Chapter 3, Teresa Macías reflects on the ethical challenges associated with researching stories of state-sponsored terror recorded in archives. This chapter discusses topics including … | Teresa Macías | 24 | 2022 | $2.40 Add |
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From NEW! Accountability in Ethnographic ResearchResearching the Making of White/Northern Subjects through Anti-Black Racism while Brown From: Unravelling Research |
In Chapter 4, Leila Angod builds on the work of Sherene Razack, a Canadian critical race scholar, and proposes an ethics of accountability defined as a commitment to recognize not only how … | Leila Angod | 21 | 2022 | $2.10 Add |
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From NEW! 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 The Basis of Modern SocietiesFrom: How Societies Work |
- | Joanne Naiman | 28 | 2012 | $4.48 Add |
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From Analyzing Social ClassFrom: How Societies Work |
- | Joanne Naiman | 22 | 2012 | $3.52 Add |
