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  1. Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do 
    The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a Free Society
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
  2. The American Class System
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
  3. Bound By Power
    Intended Consequences
    Resource Type: Book
    These essays focus on how power and ideology work within society. Interviews are with Noam Chomsky, Linda McQuaig, Robert Bertuzzi and others. They speak to the issues of the understanding of power and political dissent, the repression of dissent in post 9/11 media coverage and the war on terror.
  4. Calculated Chaos
    Institutional Threats to Peace and Human Survival
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
    Discusses the role of institutions within society and how their interests have lead to conflict and war over the past century.
  5. Compass Points
    Navigating the Twentieth Century
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    A radical history of the twentieth century by a wide of Canadian authors and essayists grappling with crucial developments in politics, economics, society, and culture in Canada and abroad.
  6. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1991
  7. The Crisis of Modern Society
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1965   Published: 1967
    Based on a talk given by Paul Cardan at Kent in 1965, "Crisis" elucidates upon the several endemic problems of modern societies, touching on the sciences, education, and the organization of work.
  8. The Dialectical Imagination
    A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research
    Resource Type: Book
  9. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
  10. Drawing the Line
    A pamphlet
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1946   Published: 1962
  11. The Ecology of Freedom 
    The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982   Published: 2005
    Bookchin's synthesis of ecology, anthropology and political theory traces conflicting legacies of hierarchy and freedom from the first emergence of human culture to today's globalized capitalism, constantly pointing the way to a sane, sustainable ecological future.
  12. The Economics of Happiness
    Building Genuine Wealth
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Anielski's premise is quite simple: how can we go beyond mere material wealth to achieve veritable wealth-good health, meaningful relationships, spirituality, a clean environment, peace, justice and happiness. He believes that economic systems should orient us to what we really want.
  13. The English Peasantry in the Later Middle Ages
    The Ford Lectures for 1973 and Related Studies
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975
    Investigates the question of whether or not peasants might be considered their own social class.
  14. Equal Shares in Caring
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1991
  15. 1492-1992 -- Five Centuries of Imperialism and Resistance
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    Articles critiquing the "Columbus myth, and chronicles the repression of North America's original indigenous inhabitants.
  16. Free Speech
    A Very Short Introduction
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Covers a wide-range of controversial free-speech issues, from Holocaust denial and pornography to the status of modern copyright law. Offers a concise quide to many of the vexing issues concerning our right to speak freely.
  17. Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada.
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
    See also CX3147.
  18. Global Imperative
    Harmonizing Culture and Nature
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
  19. The Great Transformation 
    The political and economic origins of our time
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1944   Published: 1968
    Polanyi analyzes the social and political upheavals that took place in England during the rise of the market economy. Polanyi contends that the modern market economy and the modern nation-state should be understood not as discrete elements, but as a single human invention he calls the "Market Society".
  20. The Great Turning as Compass and Lens
    Yes! Magazine Summer 2006
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    The Great Turning is a name for the transition from the industrial growth society to a life-sustaining society. It identifies the shift from a self-destroying political economy to one in harmony with Earth and enduring for the future. It unites and includes all the actions being taken to honor and preserve life on Earth. It is the essential adventure of our time.
  21. The Great War and Canadian Society
    An Oral History
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
    Recollections of Canadian men and women who lived thorugh the First World War and recall life in the trenches and on the homefront.
  22. Green Politics
    Agenda For a Free Society
    Resource Type: Book
    An international suvey of Green political parties, their programs and their progress toward setting up a society that is ecologically sustainable, economically viable and socially just.
  23. Human Development Council
    Organization profile published 1981
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1981
    The St. John Human Development Council is an effort at social planning and coordination that is non-governmental and broadly based in the community.
  24. Income and Health
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
  25. The Invention of the White Race 
    Volume One: Racial Oppression and Social Control
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    One of the great contributions of Allen's study is a complete debunking of the myth that race and skin colour are the same thing.
  26. Keywords
    A Vocabulary of Culture and Society
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    Williams examines more than 100 familiar words and explores how they are used.
  27. Kropokin on Mutual Aid - Review
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1956
  28. Life, Money & Illusion
    Living on Earth as if We Want to Stay
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    The failure to reduce green house gas emissions, the success of efforts to curb ozone depletion, causes related to prosperity and social justice are just some the topics covered. By using the example of Kerela, India, Nickerson shows how a society by working together can become car-free, religious and bigotry free, have a high level of health care and literacy and be able to sustain itself on a fraction of the money on which we depend.
  29. Marxists Internet Archive 
    Resource Type: Website
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
  30. Peaceful Measures
    Canada's Way Out of the War on Drugs
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
  31. The Post- Industrial Utopians
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
  32. Questioning Technology
    A Critical Anthology
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    A collection of essays laying out the case for thinking critically about technology.
  33. Remaking Society
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
  34. Rogue Primate
    An Exploration of Human Domestication
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    The first domesticated animal, according to Livingston, was neither dog nor goat, but human. Humans cut themselves adrift from the rest of the world by becoming entirely dependent on ideas. Technical ideas gave them the power to manipulate nature as well as a rationalization for their destructiveness. Now humans have drawn other animals, and even the natural world itself, into the service of their belief systems. Even our understanding of nature is informed by an ideological insistence that domination is somehow 'natural'.
  35. The Sane Society
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1955
    A critical evaluation of the effects of contemporary Western culture on the mental health and sanity of the people living within it.
  36. Situationist International Anthology 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981   Published: 2006
    A selection of Situationist writings.
  37. Society and Mind in Marxian Philosophy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1937
  38. Society of Citizens of the World
    Resource Type: Book
  39. Towns for People
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    Examines the pressures, lifestyle changes, and social factors that contributed to the decline in urban public life in the late 20th century.
  40. The Uses of Disorder
    Personal Identity and City Life
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    An examination of the ways the modern city has failed, and an exploration of new modes of urban organization through which city life can become richer and more life-affirming.

Experts on Soci‚t‚ in the Sources Directory

  1. International Organization for Migration
  2. Marxists Internet Archive
  3. Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
  4. The Preservation Institute
  5. World Customs Organization
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