Exploring Sociology A Canadian Perspective

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Exploring Sociology  is a "students first" resource written with millennial students in mind, and with their help.

Bruce Ravelli and Michelle Webber, the authors of Exploring Sociology, believe that theory provides the foundation for sociology and that students need to explore both classical and modern theory to grasp the sociological endeavour fully. Accordingly, this text provides the most comprehensive overview of classical and modern social theories of any textbook. This is the first mainstream introductory sociology text to devote an entire chapter to contemporary theory, and the first to integrate postmodern and post-structural theoretical insights meaningfully throughout the book. 

Through its distinctive approach to the field, its readability, and its relevance to students’ lives, Exploring Sociology: A Canadian Perspective,Third Edition, helps professors develop the sociological imagination in their students by encouraging them to see sociology through multiple lenses. Topics are presented in ways that allow students to engage with the material and to exercise their sociological imaginations.

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Bruce Ravelli is an award winning teacher who received his Ph.D. from the University of Victoria in 1997. He has taught introductory sociology for over 25 years, and receives strong teaching evaluations from his students because of his passion for sociology, his dedication to teaching, and his commitment to high academic standards. Bruce has published various textbooks, readers, articles, and book chapters on Canadian culture and cross-national value differences as well as students’ evaluation of teaching. Bruce is the co-developer of award-winning free online software that allows teachers to anonymously assess their teaching/courses at any point during the term (www.toofast.ca). He offers workshops and presentations on the software and on anonymous student assessment across North America. Bruce teaches in the Department of Sociology at the University of Victoria. If any students or colleagues have questions or comments about the text, please feel free to contact him by email at bravelli@uvic.ca.

Michelle Webber received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. Her research interests lie in the sociology of education and sociology of gender. She has regularly taught introductory sociology over the last 10 years. Michelle has published articles and book chapters on feminist pedagogies, the regulation of academic work, the work of teaching assistants, the experiences of contingent faculty members, and feminist knowledges. She has co-edited Rethinking Society in the 21st Century: Critical Readings in Sociology (First, Second, and Third Editions) with Kate Bezanson. Her current research projects are both funded by SSHRC: 1. an investigation of accountability governance and its effects on the production of academic knowledge and subjectivities (with Sandra Acker, Co-Investigator, University of Toronto) and 2. faculty associations and the politics of accountability governance (Larry Savage, Principal Investigator, and Jonah Butovsky, Co-Investigator—both at Brock University). Michelle is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Brock University in Ontario. She can be contacted via email at mwebber@brocku.ca.