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  • The New Pragmatist Sociology

    Inquiry, Agency, and Democracy

    by John Levi Martin, Daniel Huebner, Luis Flores, Daniel Silver, Josh Whitford, Iddo Tavory, Stefan Timmermans, Mazen Elfakhani, Mario Small, Cayce Hughes, Vontrese Pamphile, Jeffrey Parker, Natalie B. Aviles, Susan Silbey, Paul Lichterman, Karida Brown, Luna Vincent, Daniel Cefai, Ann Mische ...
    Pragmatist thought is central to sociology. However, sociologists typically encounter pragmatism indirectly, as a philosophy of science or as an influence on canonical social scientists, rather than as a vital source of theory, research questions, and methodological reflection in sociology today.In The New Pragmatist Sociology, Neil Gross, Isaac Ariail Reed, and Christopher Winship assemble a ... Read more

    $47.19 CAD

  • The New Pragmatist Sociology

    Inquiry, Agency, and Democracy

    by John Levi Martin, Daniel Huebner, Luis Flores, Daniel Silver, Josh Whitford, Iddo Tavory, Stefan Timmermans, Mazen Elfakhani, Mario Small, Cayce Hughes, Vontrese Pamphile, Jeffrey Parker, Natalie B. Aviles, Susan Silbey, Paul Lichterman, Karida Brown, Luna Vincent, Daniel Cefai, Ann Mische ...
    Pragmatist thought is central to sociology. However, sociologists typically encounter pragmatism indirectly, as a philosophy of science or as an influence on canonical social scientists, rather than as a vital source of theory, research questions, and methodological reflection in sociology today.In The New Pragmatist Sociology, Neil Gross, Isaac Ariail Reed, and Christopher Winship assemble a ... Read more

    $47.19 CAD

  • Thinking Through Methods

    A Social Science Primer

    by John Levi Martin ...
    Sociological research is hard enough already—you don't need to make it even harder by smashing about like a bull in a china shop, not knowing what you're doing or where you're heading. Or so says John Levi Martin in this witty, insightful, and desperately needed primer on how to practice rigorous social science. Thinking Through Methods focuses on the practical decisions that you will need to make ... Read more

    Was $27.99 CAD Now $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Thinking Through Statistics

    by John Levi Martin ...
    Simply put, Thinking Through Statistics is a primer on how to maintain rigorous data standards in social science work, and one that makes a strong case for revising the way that we try to use statistics to support our theories. But don't let that daunt you. With clever examples and witty takeaways, John Levi Martin proves himself to be a most affable tour guide through these scholarly waters ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Social Structures

    by John Levi Martin ...
    Social Structures is a book that examines how structural forms spontaneously arise from social relationships. Offering major insights into the building blocks of social life, it identifies which locally emergent structures have the capacity to grow into larger ones and shows how structural tendencies associated with smaller structures shape and constrain patterns of larger structures. The book ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • The True, the Good, and the Beautiful

    The Rise and Fall and Rise of an Architectonic for Action

    by John Levi Martin ...
    We have many histories of social theory—what different authors attempted to do as they responded to previous theories. But we know precious little about how they did this in structural terms—what scaffolding they adopted and adapted to make their claims. Yet today’s social thoughts largely employ structures passed down from previous generations, structures that were developed to solve problems ... Read more

    $62.39 CAD

  • Tough Crimes

    True Cases by Top Criminal Lawyers

    by Christopher D. Evans, Edward L. Greenspan, Richard Wolson, Marilyn Sandford, Earl Levy, Peter Martin, John Rosen, Fred Ferguson, William Smart0, Richard Peck1, Noel O'Brien2, Joel Pink3, Patrick Fagan4, Brian Beresh5, Mark Brayford6, Marie Henein7, William Trudell8, John Vertes9, Thomas Dalby0, Hersh Wolch1 ...
    Series Book 1 - True Cases Series
    Tough Crimes is a collection of thoughtful and insightful stories by twenty of Canada’s most prominent criminal lawyers. In the book, they write about cases that had surprising turns, or that presented personal or ethical challenges. We’ve all heard the media’s take on notorious criminals, but when have we had a chance to hear directly from the lawyers who defended or prosecuted them? We’ve all ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • More Tough Crimes

    True Cases by Canadian Judges and Criminal Lawyers

    by William Trudell, Lorene Shyba ...
    Series Book 3 - True Cases Series
    More Tough Crimes follows the exceptional success of Tough Crimes: True Cases by Top Canadian Criminal Lawyers (2014) and Shrunk: Crime and Disorders of the Mind (2016), the first two books in Durvile’s True Cases Series. What makes this series so unique and successful is the window provided into the world of criminal justice. The sixteen stories in More Tough Crimes are written by Donald Bayne on ... Read more

    $16.95 CAD

  • Critical Theory and Qualitative Data Analysis in Education

    Edited by Rachelle Winkle-Wagner, Jamila Lee-Johnson, Ashley N. Gaskew ...
    Critical Theory and Qualitative Data Analysis in Education offers a path-breaking explanation of how critical theories can be used within the analysis of qualitative data to inform research processes, such as data collection, analysis, and interpretation. This contributed volume offers examples of qualitative data analysis techniques and exemplars of empirical studies that employ critical theory ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • Is That True?

    Critical Thinking for Sociologists

    by Joel Best ...
    Across disciplines, critical thinking is praised, taught, and put into practice. But what does it actually mean to think critically? In this brief volume, sociologist Joel Best examines how to evaluate arguments and the evidence used to support them as he hones in on how to think in the field of sociology and beyond.With inimitable style that melds ethnographic verve with dry humor, Best examines ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • The Elephant in the Brain

    Hidden Motives in Everyday Life

    by Kevin Simler, Robin Hanson ...
    Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are designed not just to hunt and gather, but also to help us get ahead socially, often via deception and self-deception. But while we may be self-interested schemers, we benefit by pretending otherwise. The less we know about our own ugly motives, the better - and thus we don't like to talk or even think about ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Social Construction of Reality

    A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge

    by Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann ...
    A general and systematic account of the role of knowledge in society aimed to stimulate both critical discussion and empirical investigations.This book is concerned with the sociology of ‘everything that passes for knowledge in society’. It focuses particularly on that ‘common-sense knowledge’ which constitutes the reality of everyday life for the ordinary member of society.The authors are ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook