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  • Qualitative Literacy

    A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research

    by Mario Luis Small, Jessica McCrory Calarco ...
    Suppose you were given two qualitative studies: one is a piece of empirically sound social science and the other, though interesting and beautifully written, is not. How would you tell the difference? Qualitative Literacy presents criteria to assess qualitative research methods such as in-depth interviewing and participant observation. Qualitative research is indispensable to the study of ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Someone To Talk To

    by Mario Luis Small ...
    When people are facing difficulties, they often feel the need for a confidant-a person to vent to or a sympathetic ear with whom to talk things through. How do they decide on whom to rely? In theory, the answer seems obvious: if the matter is personal, they will turn to a spouse, a family member, or someone close. In practice, what people actually do often belies these expectations. In Someone To ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Personal Networks

    Classic Readings and New Directions in Egocentric Analysis

    Edited by Mario L. Small, Brea L. Perry, Bernice Pescosolido, Edward B. Smith ...
    Series series Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences
    Social networks are ubiquitous. The science of networks has shaped how researchers and society understand the spread of disease, the precursors of loneliness, the rise of protest movements, the causes of social inequality, the influence of social media, and much more. Egocentric analysis conceives of each individual, or ego, as embedded in a personal network of alters, a community partially of ... Read more

    $69.99 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

    $47.99 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

    $47.99 CAD

  • Unanticipated Gains

    Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life

    by Mario Luis Small ...
    Social capital theorists have shown that some people do better than others in part because they enjoy larger, more supportive, or otherwise more useful networks. But why do some people have better networks than others? Unanticipated Gains argues that the practice and structure of the churches, colleges, firms, gyms, childcare centers, and schools in which people happen to participate routinely ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

  • Unanticipated Gains

    Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life

    by Mario Luis Small ...
    Social capital theorists have shown that some people do better than others in part because they enjoy larger, more supportive, or otherwise more useful networks. But why do some people have better networks than others? Unanticipated Gains argues that the practice and structure of the churches, colleges, firms, gyms, childcare centers, and schools in which people happen to participate routinely ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

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  • 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

    $27.99 CAD

  • Words, Objects and Events in Economics

    The Making of Economic Theory

    Edited by Peter Róna, László Zsolnai, Agnieszka Wincewicz-Price ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This open access book examines from a variety of perspectives the disappearance of moral content and ethical judgment from the models employed in the formulation of modern economic theory, and some of the papers contain important proposals about how moral judgment could be reintroduced in economic theory. The chapters collected in this volume result from the favorable reception of the first volume ... Read more

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  • Making Sense of Social Theory

    by Charles H. Powers ...
    Making Sense of Social Theory opens by carefully exploring what it means to follow the scientific method in a field like sociology. The book goes on to analyze sociology as a genuine science with a body of explanatory insights. Sociological theory is applied in ways that make its relevance and power apparent so that theory no longer stands divorced from real world research or practice. Making ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • The Concise Encyclopedia of Sociology

    Edited by George Ritzer, J. Michael Ryan ...
    This concise encyclopedia is the most complete international survey of sociology ever created in one volume.Contains over 800 entries from the whole breadth of the disciplineDistilled from the highly regarded Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, with entries completely revised and updated to provide succinct and up-to-date coverage of the fundamental topicsGlobal in scope, both in terms of topics ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Feeling Power

    Emotions and Education

    by Megan Boler ...
    First published in 1999. Megan Boler combines cultural history with ethical and multicultural analyses to explore how emotions have been disciplined, suppressed, or ignored at all levels of education and in educational theory. FEELING POWER charts the philosophies and practices developed over the last century to control social conflicts arising from gender, class, and race. The book traces the ... Read more

    $92.99 CAD