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  • Interpretive Sociology and the Semiotic Imagination

    by J.I. Hans Bakker, Wayne Brekhus, Todd Madigan, Paul McLean, Rein Raud, Eunkyung Song, Elizabeth Wissinger ...
    Series series Interpretive Lenses in Sociology
    Semiotics provides key analytical tools to understand the creation and reproduction of meaning in social life. Although some fields have productively incorporated semiotic models, sociology still needs to engage with semiotic mediation.Written by a diverse group of authors in interpretive sociology, this ambitious volume asks what the relationship between meaning systems and action is, how we can ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • The Sociology of Identity

    Authenticity, Multidimensionality, and Mobility

    by Wayne H. Brekhus ...
    How do people think about their identities? How do they express themselves individually and as part of collective groups, social movements, organizations, neighborhoods, or nations?Identity has important consequences for how we organize our lives, wield social power, and produce and reproduce privilege and marginality. In this lively and engaging book, Wayne H. Brekhus explores the sociology of ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Symbolic Interactionism

    Edited by Wayne H. Brekhus, Thomas DeGloma, William Ryan Force ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Symbolic Interactionism features a diverse array of cutting-edge scholarship in symbolic interactionism (SI). Contributors present original research in various established and emerging areas of concern while outlining key theoretical and methodological foundations of this multifaceted and broadly relevant perspective in the field of sociology. The scholars featured in this ... Read more

    $149.39 USD

  • Culture and Cognition

    Patterns in the Social Construction of Reality

    by Wayne H. Brekhus ...
    Series series Cultural Sociology
    How does culture shape our thinking? In what ways do our social and cultural worlds enter into our mental worlds? How do the communities we belong to influence what we notice and what we ignore? What cultural variation do we see in cognition? What general patterns do we see across this diversity and variation?In this lively and engaging book, Wayne H. Brekhus shows us the many ways that culture ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Sociology

    Edited by Wayne H. Brekhus, Gabe Ignatow ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    In recent years there has been a growing interest in cognition within sociology and other social sciences. Within sociology this interest cuts across various topical subfields, including culture, social psychology, religion, race, and identity. Scholars within the new subfield of cognitive sociology, also referred to as the sociology of culture and cognition, are contributing to a rapidly ... Read more

    $154.79 USD

  • Interpreting Identities

    Dimensions of Power, Presence, and Belonging

    Edited by Wayne H. Brekhus, Susie Scott ...
    Series series Interpretive Lenses in Sociology
    This edited collection brings together social scientists to interpret identity from a wide range of analytical perspectives. Drawing on multiple interpretive traditions from the last 100 years, the book explores how underlying social, cultural and psychological forces shape the dimensions of identity.Chapters emphasize how identity forms and functions in relation to key sociological issues such as ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

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  • School and Society

    by Walter Feinberg, Jonas F. Soltis ...
    Series series Thinking About Education Series
    This widely used text has been expanded to include the most important issues in contemporary schooling, including:New end-of-chapter sections for Further Reading.New references added to the useful Additional Resources section.School and Society, Fifth Edition uses realistic case studies, dialogues, and open-ended questions designed to stimulate thinking about problems related to school and society ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • The Ethics of Care and Empathy

    by Michael Slote ...
    Eminent moral philosopher Michael Slote argues that care ethics presents an important challenge to other ethical traditions and that a philosophically developed care ethics should, and can, offer its own comprehensive view of the whole of morality. Taking inspiration from British moral sentimentalism and drawing on recent psychological literature on empathy, he shows that the use of that notion ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Good Education in an Age of Measurement

    Ethics, Politics, Democracy

    by Gert J. J. Biesta ...
    The widespread use of the measurement of educational outcomes in order to compare the performance of education within and across countries seems to express a real concern for the quality of education. This book argues that the focus on the measurement of educational outcomes has actually displaced questions about educational purpose. Biesta explores why the question as to what constitutes good ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Transforming Conflict through Insight

    by Cheryl A. Picard, Kenneth R Melchin ...
    Examining the difficulties of conflict resolution, Transforming Conflict through Insight demonstrates how applying Bernard Lonergan's philosophy of insight to mediation can lead to more productive and constructive negotiations. Kenneth R. Melchin and Cheryl A. Picard provide both an overview of conflict research and an introduction to Lonergan's "insight theory," offering an outstanding piece of ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Critical Curriculum Studies

    Education, Consciousness, and the Politics of Knowing

    by Wayne Au ...
    Series series Critical Social Thought
    Critical Curriculum Studies offers a novel framework for thinking about how curriculum relates to students’ understanding of the world around them. Wayne Au brings together curriculum theory, critical educational studies, and feminist standpoint theory with practical examples of teaching for social justice to argue for a transformative curriculum that challenges existing inequity in social, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Rethinking Social Movements

    Structure, Meaning, and Emotion

    by Jeff Goodwin, Richard Flacks, Marshall Ganz, Deborah B. Gould, Ruud Koopmans, Charles Kurzman, David A. Merrill, David S. Meyer, Francesca Polletta, Marc W. Steinberg0, Myra Marx Ferree1, James M. Jasper2, Doug McAdam4, Aldon Morris5, Sidney Tarrow6, Charles Tilly7 ...
    Series series People, Passions, and Power: Social Movements, Interest Organizations, and the P
    This landmark volume brings together some of the titans of social movement theory in a grand reassessment of its status. For some time, the field has been divided between a dominant structural approach and a cultural or constructivist tradition. The gaps and misunderstandings between the two sides-as well as the efforts to bridge them-closely parallel those in the discipline of sociology at large. ... Read more

    $55.09 USD