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Social Thinking and History

A Sociocultural Psychological Perspective on Representations of the Past

By: Constance De Saint Laurent

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Social Thinking and History

A Sociocultural Psychological Perspective on Representations of the Past

By: Constance De Saint Laurent

Social Thinking and History demonstrates that our representations of history are constructed through complex psychosocial processes in interaction with multiple others, and that they evolve throughout our lifetime, playing an important role in our relation to our social environment. Building on the literature on social thinking, collective memory, and sociocultural psychology, this book proposes a new perspective on how we understand and use our collective past. It focuses on how we actively think about history to construct representations of the world within which we live and how we learn to challenge or appropriate the stories we have heard about the past. Through the analysis of three studies of how history is understood and represented in different contexts – in political discourses in France, by intellectuals and artists in Belgium, and when discussing a current event in Poland – its aim is to offer a rich picture of our representations of the past and the role they play in everyday life. This book will be of great interest toacademics, researchers, and postgraduate students in the fields of psychology, memory studies, sociology, political science, and history. It will also make an interesting read for psychologists and human and social scientists working on collective memory.

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227

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Routledge

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042987765X

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9780429877650

Crosscurrents

How film policy developed in Quebec 1960-1983

By: Constance Dilley

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Crosscurrents

How film policy developed in Quebec 1960-1983

By: Constance Dilley

Crosscurrents: How Film Policy Developed in Quebec 1960-1983 documents the fight by filmmakers in Quebec for a film policy that would support their ambition to create commercial feature films. In the process, it explores the history of Quebec cinema, charting how the government supports that exist today came into existence through an intense lobbying effort on the part of filmmakers.

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235

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PUQ

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2760549402

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9782760549401

Pragmatism and Methodology

Doing Research That Matters with Mixed Methods

By: Alex Gillespie,Vlad Glăveanu,Constance de Saint Laurent

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Pragmatism and Methodology

Doing Research That Matters with Mixed Methods

By: Alex Gillespie,Vlad Glăveanu,Constance de Saint Laurent

A pragmatist approach on analyzing large qualitative datasets that integrates qualitative and quantitative approaches.

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251

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Cambridge University Press

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1316516148

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9781316516140

The Cistercian Evolution

The Invention of a Religious Order in Twelfth-Century Europe

By: Constance Hoffman Berman

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The Cistercian Evolution

The Invention of a Religious Order in Twelfth-Century Europe

By: Constance Hoffman Berman

According to the received history, the Cistercian order was founded in Cîteaux, France, in 1098 by a group of Benedictine monks who wished for a stricter community. They sought a monastic life that called for extreme asceticism, rejection of feudal revenues, and manual labor for monks. Their third leader, Stephen Harding, issued a constitution, the Carta Caritatis, that called for the uniformity of custom in all Cistercian monasteries and the establishment of an annual general chapter meeting at Cîteaux. The Cistercian order grew phenomenally in the mid-twelfth century, reaching beyond France to Portugal in the west, Sweden in the north, and the eastern Mediterranean, ostensibly through a process of apostolic gestation, whereby members of a motherhouse would go forth to establish a new house. The abbey at Clairvaux, founded by Bernard in 1115, was alone responsible for founding 68 of the 338 Cistercian abbeys in existence by 1153. But this well-established view of a centrally organized order whose founders envisioned the shape and form of a religious order at its prime is not borne out in the historical record. Through an investigation of early Cistercian documents, Constance Hoffman Berman proves that no reliable reference to Stephen's Carta Caritatis appears before the mid-twelfth century, and that the document is more likely to date from 1165 than from 1119. The implications of this fact are profound. Instead of being a charter by which more than 300 Cistercian houses were set up by a central authority, the document becomes a means of bringing under centralized administrative control a large number of loosely affiliated and already existing monastic houses of monks as well as nuns who shared Cistercian customs. The likely reason for this administrative structuring was to check the influence of the overdominant house of Clairvaux, which threatened the authority of Cîteaux through Bernard's highly successful creation of new monastic communities. For centuries the growth of the Cistercian order has been presented as a spontaneous spirituality that swept western Europe through the power of the first house at Cîteaux. Berman suggests instead that the creation of the religious order was a collaborative activity, less driven by centralized institutions; its formation was intended to solve practical problems about monastic administration. With the publication of The Cistercian Evolution, for the first time the mechanisms are revealed by which the monks of Cîteaux reshaped fact to build and administer one of the most powerful and influential religious orders of the Middle Ages.

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407

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812200799

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9780812200799

Claire L’Heureux-Dubé

A Life

By: Constance Backhouse

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Claire L’Heureux-Dubé

A Life

By: Constance Backhouse

Both lionized and vilified, Claire L’Heureux-Dubé has shaped the Canadian legal landscape – and in particular its highest court. The second woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, and the first from Quebec, she was known as “the great dissenter” on the bench, making judgments that were applauded and criticized in turn. L’Heureux-Dubé’s innovative legal approach was anchored in the social, economic, and political context of her cases. Constance Backhouse employs a similar tactic. Rather than focusing exclusively on her high-profile cases and jurisprudential legacy, sheexplores the socio-political and cultural setting in which L’Heureux-Dubé’s career unfolded, while also considering her personal life. This compelling biography covers aspects of legal history that have never been so fully investigated, enhancing our understanding of the judiciary, the creation of law, the distinctive socio-legal environment of Quebec, the experiences of women in the legal profession, and the inner workings of the top court.

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769

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UBC Press

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0774836350

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9780774836357

Book's by Constance de Saint Laurent

Social Thinking and History

Social Thinking and History

Crosscurrents

Crosscurrents

Pragmatism and Methodology

Pragmatism and Methodology

The Cistercian Evolution

The Cistercian Evolution

Claire L’Heureux-Dubé

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