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  • Anti-Racist Teaching

    by Robert P. Amico ...
    Series series New Critical Viewpoints on Society
    "Antiracist Teaching" is about awakening students to their own humanity. In order to teach about this awakening one must be in the process of awakening oneself. The author shares personal anecdotes to illustrate the kinds of changes he experienced as a result of his antiracist teaching. His book explores the questions, Why is teaching about racism and white privilege to white students so difficult ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Is Everyone Really Equal?

    An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education

    by Robin DiAngelo, Özlem Sensoy ...
    Series series Multicultural Education Series
    This award-winning guide to social justice education is appropriate for students from high school through graduate school.Based on the authors’ extensive experience in a range of settings in the United States and Canada, the book addresses the most common stumbling blocks to understanding social justice. This comprehensive resource includes new features such as a chapter on intersectionality and ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Institutions and Organizations

    Ideas, Interests, and Identities

    by W. Richard Scott ...
    Creating a clear, analytical framework, this comprehensive exploration of the relationship between institutional theory and the study of organizations continues to reflect the richness and diversity of institutional thought—viewed both historically and as a contemporary, ongoing field of study. Drawing on the insights of cultural and organizational sociologists, institutional economists, social ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Politics in Time

    History, Institutions, and Social Analysis

    by Paul Pierson ...
    This groundbreaking book represents the most systematic examination to date of the often-invoked but rarely examined declaration that "history matters." Most contemporary social scientists unconsciously take a "snapshot" view of the social world. Yet the meaning of social events or processes is frequently distorted when they are ripped from their temporal context. Paul Pierson argues that placing ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • Is That True?

    Critical Thinking for Sociologists

    by Joel Best ...
    Across disciplines, critical thinking is praised, taught, and put into practice. But what does it actually mean to think critically? In this brief volume, sociologist Joel Best examines how to evaluate arguments and the evidence used to support them as he hones in on how to think in the field of sociology and beyond.With inimitable style that melds ethnographic verve with dry humor, Best examines ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Jossey-Bass Reader on Contemporary Issues in Adult Education

    Edited by Sharan B. Merriam, André P. Grace ...
    THE JOSSEY-BASS READER ON Contemporary Issues in Adult EducationWith contributions from leading experts in the field, The Jossey-Bass Reader on Contemporary Issues in Adult Education collects in one volume the best previously published literature on the issues and trends affecting adult education today. The volume includes influential pieces from foundational authors in the profession such as ... Read more

    $40.00 USD

  • Missing Class

    Strengthening Social Movement Groups by Seeing Class Cultures

    by Betsy Leondar-Wright ...
    Many activists worry about the same few problems in their groups: low turnout, inactive members, conflicting views on racism, overtalking, and offensive violations of group norms. But in searching for solutions to these predictable and intractable troubles, progressive social movement groups overlook class culture differences. Missing Class looks through a class lens and discovers that members ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • The Social Foundations Reader

    Critical Essays on Teaching, Learning and Leading in the 21st Century

    Edited by Eleanor Blair, Yolanda Medina ...
    The Social Foundations Reader is meant for undergraduate and graduate students in introductory foundations of education classes. No other contemporary reader provides such a broad and yet critical view of the issues typically addressed in an introductory foundations course. Instead, most provide a generic and typically conservative perspective on schools and classrooms and do little to encourage ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Black, Brown, Bruised

    How Racialized STEM Education Stifles Innovation

    by Ebony Omotola McGee ...
    2022 PROSE Award FinalistDrawing on narratives from hundreds of Black, Latinx, and Indigenous individuals, Ebony Omotola McGee examines the experiences of underrepresented racially minoritized students and faculty members who have succeeded in STEM. Based on this extensive research, McGee advocates for structural and institutional changes to address racial discrimination, stereotyping, and hostile ... Read more

    $24.39 USD

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  • The Schooled Society

    The Educational Transformation of Global Culture

    by David P Baker ...
    "Path-breaking . . . offers a rich, encompassing, global perspective on education . . . articulates an educationally-grounded vision of contemporary society." —David John Frank, University of California, IrvineOnly 150 years ago, the majority of the world's population was largely illiterate. Today, not only do most people over fifteen have basic reading and writing skills, but 20 percent of the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Theory for the Working Sociologist

    by Fabio Rojas ...
    Theory for the Working Sociologist makes social theory easy to understand by revealing sociology's hidden playbook. Fabio Rojas argues that sociologists use four different theoretical "moves" when they try to explain the social world: how groups defend their status, how people strategically pursue their goals, how values and institutions support each other, and how people create their social ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Problem-Solving Sociology

    A Guide for Students

    by Monica Prasad ...
    A broad resource that offers tools for how to conduct problem-solving sociology in order to deepen and reformulate our understanding of society. Most students arrive in graduate sociology programs eager to engage with the pressing social and political issues of the day. Yet that initial enthusiasm does not always survive the professional socialization of graduate school. In Problem-Solving ... Read more

    $22.79 USD