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- Sociology
- Sociology -- History
- Sociology -- Methodology
- Sociology -- Disability
- Sociology -- Philosophy
- Sociology -- Research
- Sociology -- Urban
- Families
- Educational sociology
- Socialization
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- H (Social sciences (General)
- HM (Sociology)
- HN (Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform)
- HQ (The Family. Marriage. Women)
- HS (Societies: secret, benevolent, etc)
- HT (Communities. Classes. Races)
- HV (Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology)
- HX (Socialism. Communism. Anarchism)
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A Selection of Faculty Publications

Sport, Physical Activity, and Anti-Colonial Autoethnography: Stories and Ways of Being by Jason Laurendeau
Call Number: E-book
Publication Date: 2023
Anger and Angst : Jason Kenney's Legacy and Alberta's Right by Trevor W. Harrison and Ricardo Acuna, eds "Alberta is on the verge of a very important election, featuring an extreme right-populist party--the United Conservative Party--versus the New Democrats. Given the current national discourse around energy transition and provincial autonomy--and the rise of the populist right across Canada--this book will provide valuable insight and information to people both inside and outside Alberta."-- Provided by publisher
Call Number: FC 3676.1 K46 A54 2023
Publication Date: 2023
Against Orthodoxy by Trevor W. Harrison (Editor); Slobodan Drakulic (Editor) During the Cold War, nationalism fell from favour among theorists as an explanatory factor in history, as Marxists and liberals looked to class and individualism as the driving forces of change. The resurgence of nationalism after the collapse of the Soviet Union, however, called for a reconsideration of the paradigm. Against Orthodoxy uses case studies from around the world to critically evaluate decades of new scholarship. The authors argue that theories of nationalism have ossified into a new set of orthodoxies. These overlook nationalism's role as a generative force, one that reflects complex historical, political, and cultural arrangements that defy simplistic explanations.
Call Number: JC 311 A358 2011
Publication Date: 2011
Capitalism and Confrontation by Justin Paulson, Carlo Fanelli, Lefebvre Priscillia, Gülden Özcan
Call Number: HB 3717 2008 C36 2012
ISBN: 9781926958217
Publication Date: 2012
Casino State by James Cosgrave; Thomas Klassen
Call Number: Available online
Publication Date: 2009
Chapter by Dr. William Ramp
Defining Work by Muriel Mellow
Call Number: BV 638.7 M45 2007
Publication Date: 2006
An illuminating study of how gender and work intersect among the rural clergy
Dimensions of Inequality in Canada by David A. Green (Editor); Jonathan R. Kesselman (Editor)
Call Number: Available online
Publication Date: 2006
Chapter by Dr. Tom Perks
Guerrilla Aesthetics by Kimberly Mair The violent operations performed in the 1970s by West German urban guerrillas ? such as the Red Army Faction (RAF) ? were so vivid and incomprehensible that it seemed to be more urgent to produce spectacle than to be politically successful. In Guerrilla Aesthetics, Kimberly Mair challenges the assumption that these guerrillas sought to realize specific political goals. Instead, she tracks the guerrilla fighters? plunge into an avant-garde-inspired negativity that rejected rationality and provoked the state. Focusing on the Red Decade of 1967 to 1977, which was characterized not only by terrorism and police brutality but also by counterculture aesthetics, Mair draws from archives, grey literatures, popular culture, art, and memorial and curatorial practices to explore the sensorial aspects of guerrilla communications performed by the RAF, as well as the 2nd of June Movement and the Socialist Patients' Collective. Turning to cultural and artistic responses to the decade and its legacy of raw public feelings, Mair also examines works by Eleanor Antin, Erin Cosgrove, Christoph Draeger, Bruce LaBruce, Gerhard Richter, and others. Reconsidering an enigmatic period in the history of terrorism, Guerrilla Aesthetics innovatively engages with the inherent connections between violence, performance, the senses, and memory.
Call Number: HV 6433 G32 M34 2016
Publication Date: 2016
Invested Indifference: How Violence Persists in Settler Colonial Society by Kara Granzow In 2004, Amnesty International characterized Canadian society as "indifferent" to the high rates of violence faced by Indigenous women and girls. When the Canadian government took another twelve years to launch a national inquiry, that indictment seemed true. Invested Indifference offers a divergent perspective on the contemporary disappearance and murder of Indigenous women and girls in Canada. It does so by examining practices at three different historical moments in the same location, the place we now call Edmonton, juxtaposing late-nineteenth century texts, documents concerning the former Charles Camsell Indian Hospital, and contemporary online police materials. Through a critical analysis of the seemingly disparate discourses circulating through these materials, Kara Granzow makes the claim that what we see as societal indifference does not come from an absence of feeling but from a deep-rooted and affective investment in framing specific lives as disposable. Granzow demonstrates that through mechanisms such as the law, medicine, and control of land and space, gendered and racialized everyday violence against Indigenous people has become symbolically and politically entrenched as a central practice in the social construction of Canadian nationhood. Invested Indifference exposes the thread of violence not as past, but as running through our settler-colonial present.
Call Number: Available online
Publication Date: 2020
The Millennial Mosaic by Reginald W. Bibby; Joel Thiessen; Monetta Bailey The bottom line: Millennials are looking good There's a lot of consternation about the Millennial generation -- Canada's youngest adults born since the mid-1980s and now reaching their thirties. But the speculation has not been accompanied by sound and comprehensive information -- until now. Highly respected sociologist and veteran trend-tracker Reginald W. Bibby teams up with two Gen X colleagues, Joel Thiessen and Monetta Bailey, to provide an up-to-date reading on how Millennials see the world -- their values, joys, and concerns; their views of family, sexuality, spirituality, and other Canadians; and their hopes and expectations as they look to the future. What's more, the authors compare Millennials with Gen Xers, Boomers, and Pre-Boomers. Their conclusion? Canada's much-criticized Millennials may well be a solid upgrade on previous generations -- speaking well for the country's future.
Call Number: Available online
Publication Date: 2019
Place, Power, Media by Divya McMillin (Editor); Joost de Bruin (Editor); Jo Smith (Editor)
Call Number: P 94.6 P58 2018
Publication Date: 2018
Chapter by Dr. Athena Elafros
A Special Hell: Institutional Life in Alberta's Eugenic Years by Claudia Malacrida
Call Number: HV 3008 C32 R43 2014
Publication Date: 2015

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