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  • Is There Life After Football?

    Surviving the NFL

    by James A Holstein, Richard S Jones, George E Koonce ...
    An award-winning book that takes us "inside the lives of NFL players to show why so many wind up in dire straits after their time on the field" ( New York Post).2016 Best Book Award, North American Society for the Sociology of SportIn this book, two social scientists team up with former linebacker and University of Wisconsin athletic director George Koonce to put a human face on the realities of ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Challenges and Choices

    Constructionist Perspectives on Social Problems

    Edited by James A. Holstein, Gale Miller ...
    Series series Social Problems & Social Issues
    The social constructionist perspective has revolutionized the way that social scientists investigate social problems. Constructing Social Problems (Spector and Kitsuse [1977] 2001) offered the guiding statement of the approach, which both transformed and revitalized the sociology of social problems, propelling it into a quarter century of exciting and innovative empirical research. John Kitsuse ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Court-Ordered Insanity

    Interpretive Practice and Involuntary Commitment

    by James A. Holstein ...
    Series series Social Problems & Social Issues
    This book, about involuntary commitment proceedings, focuses on interpretive practice at the nexus of legal, psychiatric, and practical reasoning. It describes the interactional dynamics through which legally and psychiatrically warranted decisions are publicly argued, negotiated, and justified. ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Constructing the Life Course

    by James A. Holstein, Jaber F. Gubrium ...
    Series series The Reynolds Series in Sociology
    Constructing the Life Course offers a social constructionist perspective on personal experience through time. The text shows the variety of ways people use life course imagery in their everyday lives and makes a useful addition to family studies or gerontology courses. ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Analyzing Narrative Reality

    by Jaber F. Gubrium, James A. Holstein ...
    Analyzing Narrative Reality offers a comprehensive framework for analyzing the construction and use of stories in society. This centers on the interplay of narrative work and narrative environments, viewed as reflexively related. Topics dealing with narrative work include activation, linkage, composition, performance, collaboration, and control. Those dealing with narrative environments include ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Constructionist Controversies

    Issues in Social Problems Theory

    by Gale Miller, James A. Holstein ...
    "Constructionist Controversies" reviews the substantial contributions to social problems theory that have been made by social constructionist theorists and examines debates about the future of this perspective. Intended for the student, the volume provides a succinct formulation of all the major issues of social constructionism by contributors who are well recognized within the field for the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Interview Research

    The Complexity of the Craft

    Edited by Amir Marvasti, Jaber F. Gubrium, James A. Holstein, Karyn D. McKinney ...
    The second edition of this landmark volume emphasizes the dynamic, interactional, and reflexive dimensions of the research interview. Contributors highlight the myriad dimensions of complexity that are emerging as researchers increasingly frame the interview as a communicative opportunity as much as a data-gathering format. The book begins with an overview of the history and conceptual ... Read more

    $147.59 USD

  • Varieties of Narrative Analysis

    Edited by James A. Holstein, Jaber F. Gubrium ...
    Narrative research has become increasingly popular in the social sciences. While no part of the process is easy, researchers often struggle to make sense of data that can seem chaotic and without a discernable pattern. This book shows how to analyze stories, storytelling, and stories in society, bringing together a variety of approaches to both texts and narrative practice under one cover. ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • The Active Interview

    by James A. Holstein, Jaber F. Gubrium ...
    Series series Qualitative Research Methods
    "The book provides an academic basis for discussion and development of active interviewing methods. . . . The ideas raised. . . will be interesting and valuable to those involved in developing new methodologies in qualitative research and interviewing."--Helen Masey in Social Research Association NewsThe interpretive turn in social science has taken the interview and turned it upside down. Once ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

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    A Discourse Approach

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    This newly revised edition is both a lively introduction and practical guide to the main concepts and challenges of intercultural communication. Grounded in interactional sociolinguistics and discourse analysis, this work integrates theoretical principles and methodological advice, presenting students, researchers, and practitioners with a comprehensive and unified resource.Features new original ... Read more

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  • Social Theory of International Politics

    by Alexander Wendt ...
    Series Book 67 - Cambridge Studies in International Relations
    Drawing upon philosophy and social theory, Social Theory of International Politics develops a theory of the international system as a social construction. Alexander Wendt clarifies the central claims of the constructivist approach, presenting a structural and idealist worldview which contrasts with the individualism and materialism which underpins much mainstream international relations theory. He ... Read more

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  • Institutional Ethnography

    A Sociology for People

    by Dorothy E. Smith ...
    Series series Gender Lens
    Prominent sociologist Dorothy Smith outlines a method of inquiry that uses everyday experience as a lens to examine social relations and social institutions. Concerned with articulating an inclusive sociology that goes beyond looking at a particular group of people from the detached viewpoint of the researcher, this is a method of inquiry for people, incorporating the expert's research and ... Read more

    $46.99 USD