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How Societies Work

Class, Power, and Change

In 2011, protesters around the world – including Canada – called for changes to the societies in which they live. Many observers were asking: “What do they want?” Some … 367 View
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Making Sense of Society

Power and Possibility

Grounded in the sister disciplines of sociology and anthropology, this textbook is an accessible and critical introduction to contemporary social research. Alex Khasnabish eschews the common … 273 View
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Unravelling Research

The Ethics and Politics of Research in the Social Sciences

Unravelling Research is about the ethics and politics of knowledge production in the social sciences at a time when the academy is pressed to contend with the historical inequities associated … 241 View
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Unravelling Research

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In Chapter 1, author Teresa Macías explains the intentions behind this edited collection, which serves to centre the authors’ own research work as material foundation for analyses that … 18 $1.80 Add
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Introduction: Beyond the Silos

Toward a Social Justice Social Science

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In the introduction author Alex Khasnabish explains how the primary purpose of this book is to critically explore what social research is, what it does, and what it is and isn’t good for. … 5 $0.50 Add
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Society and the Study of Society

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Becoming Human

Diversity and Evolution

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In Chapter 1, Khasnabish and co-author Anthony Davis explore what it means to be human, teasing out the interconnected relationship between our biological and social evolutions. The chapter … 26 $2.60 Add
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Is Human Behaviour the Result of Our Biology?

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Latina Knowledge Production and the Ethics of Ambiguity

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In Chapter 2, authors Vannina Sztainbok and Lorena M. Gajardo examine the ethics of ambiguity when engaging in research within the geopolitical structures that continue to rely on the … ; 24 $2.40 Add
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Culture, Society, and History

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Doing Social Research

Intentionally Exploring Social Life

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In Chapter 2, Khasnabish examines the process of how social research is conducted by anthropologists, sociologists, and practitioners in other related disciplines and the problems that can arise … 39 $3.90 Add
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Dwelling in the Ethical Quicksand of Archival Research Violence and Representation in the Telling of Terror Stories

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In Chapter 3, Teresa Macías reflects on the ethical challenges associated with researching stories of state-sponsored terror recorded in archives. This chapter discusses topics including … 24 $2.40 Add
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Accountability in Ethnographic Research

Researching the Making of White/Northern Subjects through Anti-Black Racism while Brown

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In Chapter 4, Leila Angod builds on the work of Sherene Razack, a Canadian critical race scholar, and proposes an ethics of accountability defined as a commitment to recognize not only how … 21 $2.10 Add
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Making Society

Bringing the World into Being

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In Chapter 3, Khasnabish examines social order as a complex amalgamation of material practices, relationships, institutions, and ideologies which create a society. In a very real sense, each of … 26 $2.60 Add
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The Basis of Modern Societies

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Analyzing Social Class

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