How Can We Solve Our Social Problems?
β James A. Crone
π Library
π
2015
π SAGE Publications
π English
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Understanding Humans: How Social Science Can Help Solve Our Problems
β Scribed by David Edmonds
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Ltd
- Year
- 2023
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 145
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
Compiling the best episodes of SAGEβ²s β²Social Science Bitesβ² podcast since its beginning in 2012, this pocket-sized volume is sure to inspire and provoke.Β With a foreword by David Edmonds, host of the podcast, this book will show you how social science can help to solve problems in todayβ²s society.Β It is structured into sections on identity, learning, human behaviour, social change, and the unexpected, with each chapter offering the perspective of one of the most dynamic thinkers in the social sciences.
Taking a multidisciplinary approach, Edmondsβ² selection of interviews includes topics such as racial inequality, moral psychology, the pandemic, and the prison system.Β Interviewees include Sam Friedman, Professor of Sociology at LSE, Gurminder K. Bhambra, Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies at the University of Sussex, and Jennifer Richeson, Professor of Psychology at Yale University.Β This book will show you the range of voices in the social sciences today, and how this diversity is what is needed to grapple with the complexity of the issues we face.
β¦ Table of Contents
UNDERSTANDING HUMANS - FRONT COVER
UNDERSTANDING HUMANS
COPYRIGHT
CONTENTS
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
ABOUT THE PODCAST HOST
FOREWORD
IDENTITY
SAM FRIEDMAN ON CLASS
JANET CARSTEN ON THE KINSHIP OF ANTHROPOLOGY
HOW WE THINK AND LEARN
DANIEL KAHNEMAN ON BIAS
MAHZARIN BANAJI ON IMPLICIT BIAS
GURMINDER K. BHAMBRA ON POSTCOLONIAL SOCIAL SCIENCE
JONATHAN HAIDT ON MORAL PSYCHOLOGY
JO BOALER ON FEAR OF MATHEMATICS
SASKIA SASSEN ON BEFORE METHOD
HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
STEPHEN REICHER ON CROWD PSYCHOLOGY
ROBERT SHILLER ON BEHAVIOURAL ECONOMICS
DAVID HALPERN ON NUDGING
VALERIE CURTIS ON THE SOURCES OF DISGUST
MAKING SOCIAL CHANGE
JENNIFER RICHESON ON PERCEPTIONS OF RACIAL INEQUALITY
ERICA CHENOWETH ON NONVIOLENT RESISTANCE
ALISON LIEBLING ON SUCCESSFUL PRISONS
LAWRENCE SHERMAN ON EXPERIMENTAL CRIMINOLOGY
EXPLAINING THE PRESENT AND THE UNEXPECTED
HETAN SHAH ON SOCIAL SCIENCE AND THE PANDEMIC
BRUCE HOOD ON THE SUPERNATURAL
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