Understanding Humans
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Understanding Humans

How Social Science Can Help Solve Our Problems

  1. 144 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Understanding Humans

How Social Science Can Help Solve Our Problems

About this book

Compiling the best episodes of SAGE?s ?Social Science Bites? podcast since its beginning in 2012, this pocket-sized volume is sure to inspire and provoke.  With a foreword by David Edmonds, host of the podcast, this book will show you how social science can help to solve problems in today?s society.  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, Edmonds? selection of interviews includes topics such as racial inequality, moral psychology, the pandemic, and the prison system.  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.  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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. About the Contributors
  7. About the podcast host
  8. Foreword
  9. Identity
  10. Sam Friedman on Class
  11. Janet Carsten on the Kinship of Anthropology
  12. How We Think and Learn
  13. Daniel Kahneman on Bias
  14. Mahzarin Banaji on Implicit Bias
  15. Gurminder K. Bhambra on Postcolonial Social Science
  16. Jonathan Haidt on Moral Psychology
  17. Jo Boaler on Fear of Mathematics
  18. Saskia Sassen on Before Method
  19. Human Behaviour
  20. Stephen Reicher on Crowd Psychology
  21. Robert Shiller on Behavioural Economics
  22. David Halpern on Nudging
  23. Valerie Curtis on the Sources of Disgust
  24. Making Social Change
  25. Jennifer Richeson on Perceptions of Racial Inequality
  26. Erica Chenoweth on Nonviolent Resistance
  27. Alison Liebling on Successful Prisons
  28. Lawrence Sherman on Experimental Criminology
  29. Explaining the present and the unexpected
  30. Hetan Shah on Social Science and the Pandemic
  31. Bruce Hood on the Supernatural