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  • Knowledge, Experience, and Ruling

    Studies in the Social Organization of Knowledge

    Edited by Marie Campbell, Ann Manicom ...
    Series series Heritage
    Dorothy Smith is considered one of the most original sociologists and theorists of our time, and her writings have attracted much attention in Europe and the US as well as in Canada. This collection of original essays, written by scholars who worked or studied with Smith, exemplifies Smith's approach to social analysis.Each author takes an empirical approach. Some analyse texts (the maps and ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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    by Al Etmanski ...
    "Impact beautifully distills the insights and deep wisdom of one of the world's great social innovators. Etmanski's book is far more than a practical guide: it's an invitation to re-imagine possibilities for our lives and for the world we create."- David Bornstein, author "How To Change The World"From the Introduction:Do you want to change the world but feel frustrated by the limited impact you ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Public Anthropology

    Engaging Social Issues in the Modern World

    by Edward J. Hedican ...
    Contemporary anthropology has changed drastically in the new millennium, expanding beyond the anachronistic study of "primitive" societies to confront the burning social, economic, and political challenges of the day. In the process, anthropologists often come face to face with issues that require them to take a public position—issues such as race and tolerance, health and well-being, food ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Crippling Epistemologies and Governance Failures

    A Plea for Experimentalism

    by Gilles Paquet ...
    Series series Governance Series
    In Crippling Epistemologies and Governance Failures, Gilles Paquet criticizes the prevailing practices of the social sciences on the basis of their inadequate concepts of knowledge, evidence and inquiry, concepts he claims have become methodological “mental prisons”. Paquet describes the prevailing policy development process in Canada in terms of its weak information infrastructure, poor ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Sustainable Knowledge

    A Theory of Interdisciplinarity

    by R. Frodeman ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Sustainable Knowledge rethinks the nature of interdisciplinary research and the place of philosophy and the humanities in society and offers a new account of what is at stake in talk about 'interdisciplinarity'. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • MIND THE GAP: Gurdjieffian Institutes with Ouspensky, Roles, Nicoll, Fenwick

    by Jo Nicholls-Parker ...
    The subject of this thesis is the spiritual practices taught by Gurdjieff (1870-1949) and the legacy of these teachings in the major spiritual groups that have aspired to follow this path. I argue that at the core of these spiirtual techniques are the practices that Gurdjieff referred to as "self-remembering" and "transition" and that by an analysis of these it is possible to articulate Gurdjieff ... Read more

    $10.18 USD

  • Missionary Impositions

    Conversion, Resistance, and other Challenges to Objectivity in Religious Ethnography

    Edited by Hillary K. Crane, Deana Weibel ...
    In this collection of essays, anthropologists of religion examine the special challenges they face when studying populations that proselytize. Conducting fieldwork among these groups may involve attending services, meditating, praying, and making pilgrimages. Anthropologists participating in such research may unwittingly give the impression that their interest is more personal than professional, ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Calculating the Social

    Standards and the Reconfiguration of Governing

    Edited by V. Higgins, W. Larner ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Examining the increasingly powerful role of standards in the governing of economic, political and social life, this book draws upon governmentality and actor network theory to explore how standards and standardizing projects are articulated and rendered workable in practice, and the objects, subjects and forms of identity to which this gives rise. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Unmeasured Information and the Methodology of Social Scientific Inquiry

    by Donald W. Katzner ...
    I have three reasons for bringing out the ensuing collection of essays. First, since analysis without measurement (this is generally not the same thing as what is commonly referred to as "qualitative methods" or "qualitative research" in the social science literature) is a relatively new scholarly endeavor, I am striving to enhance its visibility by attracting a wider audience than what would ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Ethnographic Research and Analysis

    Anxiety, Identity and Self

    Edited by Tom Vine, Jessica Clark, Sarah Richards, David Weir ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book reflects on the contemporary use of ethnography across both social and natural sciences, focusing in particular on organizational ethnography, autoethnography, and the role of storytelling. The chapters interrogate and reframe longstanding ethnographic discussions, including those concerning reflexivity and positionality, while exploring evolving themes such as the experiential use of ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • National Security and International Environmental Cooperation in the Arctic — the Case of the Northern Sea Route

    Edited by Willy Østreng ...
    Series Book 16 - Environment & Policy
    The basic objective of this report is to place the debate about the future of the Northern Sea Route into the larger picture of Arctic politics and the emerging agenda of the Arctic as a developing region in international society. National security and international environmental cooperation, are the objects of study employed, both separately and in various conceptual combinations, to realize this ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Introduction to Computational Social Science

    Principles and Applications

    by Claudio Cioffi-Revilla ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This textbook provides a comprehensive and reader-friendly introduction to the field of computational social science (CSS). Presenting a unified treatment, the text examines in detail the four key methodological approaches of automated social information extraction, social network analysis, social complexity theory, and social simulation modeling. This updated new edition has been enhanced with ... Read more

    $98.09 USD