Good Book, in Theory

Alan Sears is Professor of Sociology at Ryerson University. He is the author of The New Left: A History of the Future (2014) and co-author with James Cairns of The Democratic Imagination: Envisioning Popular Power in the Twenty-First Century (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).

• List of Thinking Points Acknowledgements Preface: Users' Guide for Students and Instructors 1. An Interesting Idea, In Theory 2. Theory Matters 3. But How Do You Know? 4. You Are Here: Mapping Social Relations 5. The Real World: Making Sense of Perceptions 6. Nature and Culture: The Social Construction of Distinctions 7. Making Time: Clocking Social Relations 8. Conclusion: The Politics of Social Theory Glossary References Index