The issues of soundness of qualitative research are examined in this book. Contributors discuss how a researcher does qualitative research, considering such questions as: whether one deviates from the developer's protocol and what the...
Social science
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Author:Summary: - Author:Labman, ShaunaSummary:
Resettlement – the selection and transfer of refugees from the state where they seek asylum to another state – is considered a tool of refugee protection. In this nuanced account of Canada’s resettlement program from the Indochinese...
- Author:Montell, AmandaSummary:
What causes people to join--and more importantly, stay in--extreme groups? We secretly want to know: Could it happen to me? Amanda Montell argues that, on some level, it already has.
- Author:Haviland, William A.Summary:
Explore the most fascinating, creative, dangerous, and complex species alive today: you and your neighbors in the global village. With compelling photos, engaging examples, and select studies by anthropologists in far-flung places, the...
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This collection of new studies in ethnomethodology addresses sociology's classical questions by developing that strand of ethnomethodological inquiry dealing with membership categorization. This book provides detailed studies of members...
- Author:Leslie, IanSummary:
In Curious, Ian Leslie argues that true curiosity - the sustained quest for understanding that begets insight and innovation - is becoming increasingly difficult to harness in our wired world. We confuse ease of access to information...
- Author:Le Guin, Ursula K.Summary:
From modern literature to menopause, from utopian thought to rodeos-in this classic collection of essays, Ursula K. Le Guin roves with her customary audacity over the intersecting arenas of literature, feminism, and social...
- Author:Ehrenreich, BarbaraSummary:
Ehrenreich presents a fascinating look at one of humanity's oldest traditions: the celebration of communal joy, historically expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing.
- Author:Lambert, TaylorSummary:
Darwin's Moving introduces readers to the colourful characters who populate the furniture moving trade, a male-dominated world of labour with relatively high pay and no need for education of any sort. Movers have a unique window...
- Author:Webb, AmySummary:
After yet another online dating disaster, Amy Webb was about to cancel her JDate membership when an epiphany struck: It wasn't that her standards were too high, as women are often told, but that she wasn't evaluating the right...
- Author:Crawford, ChristinaSummary:
The #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Mommie Dearest explores WomanSpirit through the ages, from the Neolithic Goddess to the Inquisition to present day. Breaking free of the emotional wreckage of her childhood and a devastating...
- Author:Watmough, DavidSummary:
David Watmough, often spoken of as Canada’s senior gay male fiction writer, has committed his memories to paper in Myself Through Others. Watmough is well-known for his fiction featuring gay "everyman" Davey Bryant, and the...
- Author:Carbin, Clifton F.Summary:
Dr. Carbin describes Deaf Heritage in Canada as "a window through which we can catch a glimpse of deaf Canadians as they go about their everyday lives, responding to events around them and making a difference in the future of their...
- Author:Vargas, Jose AntonioSummary:
In this young readers' adaptation of his memoir, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and undocumented immigrant Jose Antonio Vargas tells his story, in light of the twelve million undocumented immigrants currently in the United States. By...
- Author:Clément, DominiqueSummary:
Human rights has become the dominant vernacular for framing social problems around the world. In this book, Dominique Clément presents a paradox in politics, law, and social practice: he argues that whereas framing grievances as human...
- Author:ten Kortenaar, NeilSummary:
In the decade before and after independence, Nigerians not only adopted the novel but reinvented the genre. Nigerian novels imagined the new state, with its ideals of the rule of law, state sovereignty, and a centralized administration...
- Author:Robinson, Helen CaisterSummary:
Decades of Caring: The Big Sister Story is a record of the trials, errors, and accomplishments of an organization of Toronto women who have carried a torch for youth through good years and bad from 1912 to the present time. The author...
- Author:Battiste, Marie, Bouvier, RitaSummary:
Drawing on treaties, international law, the work of other Indigenous scholars, and especially personal experiences, Marie Battiste documents the nature of Eurocentric models of education, and their devastating impacts on Indigenous...
- Author:Paquet, GillesSummary:
Political commentator and public policy analyst Gilles Paquet examines the benefits and drawbacks of Canada's multiculturalism policy. He rejects the current policy which perpetuates difference and articulates a model for Canadian...
- Author:Tate, PoloSummary:
Polo Tate wanted to be in the Air Force since she was eleven, an unpopular dream for most young girls, but her hard work paid off. At eighteen, Polo is in basic training at the United States Air Force Academy and doing everything right...
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