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  • Walking Together

    Challenging Philosophical and Ethnographic Paradigms from the Ground Up

    by Anna Bloom-Christen ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Research Methods
    This book examines walking together as a research method, a social practice, and a paradigmatic social phenomenon. Anchored in long-term fieldwork in post-apartheid South Africa, it explores how walking together exposes the dissonance between lived racialized power asymmetries and methodological ideals that assume universal accessibility of public space. In doing so, the book turns a critical eye ... Read more

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  • The Constitution of Society

    Outline of the Theory of Structuration

    by Anthony Giddens ...
    Anthony Giddens has been in the forefront of developments in social theory for the past decade. In The Constitution of Society he outlines the distinctive position he has evolved during that period and offers a full statement of a major new perspective in social thought, a synthesis and elaboration of ideas touched on in previous works but described here for the first time in an integrated and ... Read more

    $36.00 CAD

  • The Theory of Communicative Action

    Lifeworld and Systems, a Critique of Functionalist Reason, Volume 2

    Translated by Thomas McCarthy ...
    by Jürgen Habermas ...
    This study offers a systematic reconstruction of the theoretical foundations and framework of critical social theory. It is Habermas' "magnum opus", and it is regarded as one of the most important works of modern social thought. In this second and final volume of the work, Habermas examines the relations between action concepts and systems theory and elaborates a framework for analyzing the ... Read more

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  • Beyond Learning

    Democratic Education for a Human Future

    by Gert J. J. Biesta ...
    Many educational practices are based upon ideas about what it means to be human. Thus education is conceived as the production of particular subjectivities and identities such as the rational person, the autonomous individual, or the democratic citizen. Beyond Learning asks what might happen to the ways in which we educate if we treat the question as to what it means to be human as a radically ... Read more

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  • Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action

    Translated by Christian Lenhardt, Shierry Weber Nicholsen ...
    by Jürgen Habermas ...
    In this important book Habermas develops his views on a range of moral and ethical issues. Drawing on his theory of communicative action, Habermas elaborates an original conception of 'discourse ethics', seeking to reconstruct a moral point of view from which normative claims can be impartially judged.Habermas connects communicative ethics to the theory of social action via an examination of ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Reflexive Methodology

    New Vistas for Qualitative Research

    by Mats Alvesson, Kaj Skoldberg ...
    Praise for the Second Edition:"In opposition to most literature on how to conduct good social science research which is either empirically oriented or gives priority to theoretical and philosophical considerations, which tends to make empirical research look odd or irrelevant, this volume on ′Reflexive Methodology′ explicitly turns towards a consideration of the perceptual, cognitive, theoretical, ... Read more

    $139.19 CAD

  • To Flourish or Destruct

    A Personalist Theory of Human Goods, Motivations, Failure, and Evil

    by Christian Smith ...
    A study of what motivates humans and the activity that gives rise to human social life and social structures.In his 2010 book What Is a Person?, Christian Smith argued that sociology had for too long neglected this fundamental question. Prevailing social theories, he wrote, do not adequately "capture our deep subjective experience as persons, crucial dimensions of the richness of our own lived ... Read more

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  • The Idea of English in Japan

    by Philip SEARGEANT ...

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory

    Edited by Karin Knorr Cetina, Theodore R. Schatzki, Eike von Savigny ...
    This book provides an exciting and diverse philosophical exploration of the role of practice and practices in human activity. It contains original essays and critiques of this philosophical and sociological attempt to move beyond current problematic ways of thinking in the humanities and social sciences. It will be useful across many disciplines, including philosophy, sociology, science, cultural ... Read more

    $72.82 CAD

  • Critical Realism and Composition Theory

    by Donald Judd ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Critical Realism
    The field of composition theory has emerged as part of the intellectual turmoil and set of pedagogical debates which have beset higher education for the last four decades and is now revolutionizing the theory and praxis of higher education. This volume examines three of the dominant pedagogical theories within composition theory: expressivist, cognitivist, and social-constructivist and builds its ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics

    Edited by Rajend Mesthrie ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    The most comprehensive overview available, this Handbook is an essential guide to sociolinguistics today. Reflecting the breadth of research in the field, it surveys a range of topics and approaches in the study of language variation and use in society. As well as linguistic perspectives, the handbook includes insights from anthropology, social psychology, the study of discourse and power, ... Read more

    $53.59 CAD

  • Cartographies of Knowledge

    Exploring Qualitative Epistemologies

    by Celine-Marie Pascale ...
    Mapping geographies of power and knowledge in qualitative research“In this foundational tome, Professor Celine-Marie Pascale critiques methodology in relationship to specific qualitative methods and argues cogently that despite good intentions, most of this research is still tethered to the Cartesian paradigm thus limiting its emancipatory potential. This is an impressive book that will likely ... Read more

    $87.19 CAD