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Imagining Society, Second Edition helps new students discover their sociological imagination through exploration of key building blocks: the ""thinkers"", theories, history, and methodology that are the heart of the discipline. Students will explore sociology's key theories (in the theorists' own words) and empirical methods in every chapter, forming connections to familiar issues where they have meaning and make sense. Along the way, readers will engage in thoughtful, self-directed projects that tie the content to their own lived experiences. Also available in Sage Vantage, an intuitive learning platform that integrates quality Sage textbook content with assignable multimedia activities and auto-graded assessments to drive student engagement and ensure accountability. Learn more about 978-1-0719-2553-9, Imagining Society - Vantage Learning Platform, Second Edition.

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Catherine Corrigall-Brown is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Her research focuses on social movements and protest, particularly examining what keeps individuals involved in activism over time, framing, and identity. She is the author of 4 books, including her first book Patterns of Protest, published with Stanford University Press. She has also published more than 42 articles, book chapters, and review essays. These works have appeared in journals such as Social Forces, Mobilization, the American Behavioral Scientist, the International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Sociological Perspectives, Social Movement Studies and the Canadian Review of Sociology. This research was funded by grants from the National Science Foundation (US) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada). She has served as the Chair of the Peace, War, and Social Conflict section of the American Sociological Association and on the council of the Collective Action and Social Movement Section of the American Sociological Association. She is currently a deputy editor of Mobilization, the premiere social movements journal, and on the editorial board of Sociological Compass. She was awarded the Killam Faculty Teaching Prize in 2017 and received the Early Investigator Award for best early career scholar from the Canadian Sociological Association in 2013.

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