A Good Book, In Theory
Making Sense Through Inquiry, Third Edition
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2015
- Category
- Methodology, General, Research
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781442600782
- Publish Date
- Mar 2015
- List Price
- $63.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781442600775
- Publish Date
- Mar 2015
- List Price
- $37.95
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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).
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).