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  • Handbook of Interpretive Research Methods in the Social Sciences

    Edited by Margarethe Kusenbach, Michaela Pfadenhauer ...
    This comprehensive Handbook provides interdisciplinary coverage of qualitative inquiry and interpretive research methods in the social sciences. Margarethe Kusenbach and Michaela Pfadenhauer adopt an innovative approach by connecting research practice with conceptual principles and strong theoretical grounding.Interpretivism is one of the major theoretical frameworks in contemporary social science ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Perspectives for Agroecosystem Management:

    Balancing Environmental and Socio-economic Demands

    Edited by Peter Schroder, J. Pfadenhauer, J. Munch ...
    Sustainable agriculture is a key concept for scientists, researchers, and agricultural engineers alike. This book focuses on the FAM- project (FAM Munich Research Network on Agroecosystems) of the 1990s as a means to assessing, forecasting, and evaluating changes in the agroecosystems that are necessary for agricultural sustainability. The management of two separate management systems: an organic ... Read more

    $82.99 CAD

  • Social Constructivism as Paradigm?

    The Legacy of The Social Construction of Reality

    Edited by Michaela Pfadenhauer, Hubert Knoblauch ...
    Series series Knowledge, Communication and Society
    Social constructivism is one of the most prominent theoretical approaches in the social sciences. This volume celebrates the 50th anniversary of its first formulation in Peter Berger and Luckmann’s classic foundational text, The Social Construction of Reality. Addressing the work’s contribution to establishing social constructivism as a paradigm and discussing its potential for current questions ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Global Vegetation

    Fundamentals, Ecology and Distribution

    by Jörg S. Pfadenhauer, Frank A. Klötzli ...
    Translated by Christine von Gadow ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This up-to-date textbook of global vegetation ecology, which comprises the current state of knowledge, is long overdue and much-needed. It is a translation of the textbook “Vegetation der Erde” (Springer-Spektrum, Heidelberg). A short introductory chapter deals with the fundamentals of vegetation ecology that are of importance for the delimitation and characterization of the global vegetation ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

  • The New Sociology of Knowledge

    The Life and Work of Peter L. Berger

    by Michaela Pfadenhauer ...
    A classical sociologist can be defined as someone whose works occupied a central position among the sociological ideas and notions of an era. Following this criterion, Michaela Pfadenhauer demonstrates the relevance of Peter L. Berger's work to the sociology of knowledge. Pfadenhauer shows that Berger is not only a sociologist of religion, but one whose works are characterized by a sociology-of ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

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  • Moral Relativism

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  • The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere

    by Judith Butler, Jurgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, Cornel West, Craig Calhoun ...
    Series series A Columbia / SSRC Book
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    $26.99 CAD

  • Capitalism and Modern Social Theory

    An Analysis of the Writings of Marx, Durkheim and Max Weber

    by Anthony Giddens ...
    Giddens's analysis of the writings of Marx, Durkheim and Weber has become the classic text for any student seeking to understand the three thinkers who established the basic framework of contemporary sociology. The first three sections of the book, based on close textual examination of the original sources, contain separate treatments of each writer. The author demonstrates the internal coherence ... Read more

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  • Regulating Aversion

    Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire

    by Wendy Brown ...
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    by Anthony Giddens ...
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    Possible Futures for Christianity

    by Hans Joas ...
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