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Social Science Methodology

A Good Book, In Theory

Making Sense Through Inquiry, Third Edition

by (author) Alan Sears & James Cairns

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Mar 2015
Category
Methodology, General, Research
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781442601567
    Publish Date
    Apr 2010
    List Price
    $24.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781442600386
    Publish Date
    Jan 2005
    List Price
    $22.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781442600782
    Publish Date
    Mar 2015
    List Price
    $63.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781442600775
    Publish Date
    Mar 2015
    List Price
    $37.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781551115368
    Publish Date
    Mar 2005
    List Price
    $22.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442606685
    Publish Date
    Apr 2010
    List Price
    $19.95

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Description

This highly original and compelling book offers an introduction to the art and science of social inquiry, including the theoretical and methodological frameworks that support that inquiry. The new edition offers coverage of post-modernism and Indigenous ways of knowing, as well as a discussion of the research process and how to communicate arguments effectively. The result is a book that blends the best of earlier editions with updates that provide a strong foundation in critical thinking, rooted in the social sciences but relevant across disciplines.

About the authors

Alan Sears is Professor of Sociology at Ryerson University, Toronto. He is the author of Retooling the Mind Factory: Education in a Lean State (UTP, 2003) and co-author with James Cairns of The Democratic Imagination (UTP, 2012).

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James Cairns is Associate Professor, Social and Environmental Justice, at Wilfrid Laurier University, Brantford. He is the author (with Alan Sears) of A Good Book, In Theory: Making Sense Through Inquiry (2015) and The Democratic Imagination: Envisioning Popular Power in the Twenty-First Century (2012).

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