Most Read This Week In Social Science

The social sciences are the fields of scholarship that study society. "Social science" is commonly used as an umbrella term to refer to a plurality of fields outside of the natural sciences. These include: anthropology, archaeology, business administration, criminology, economics, education, geography, linguistics, political science, sociology, international relations, communication, and, in some contexts, history, law, and psychology.
The term may be used, however, in the specific context of referring to the original science of society established in 19th century sociology. Émile Durkheim, Kar
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Revenge of the Tipping Point
Poverty, by America
Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences
The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
Disney Adults: Exploring (and Falling in Love with) a Magical Subculture
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
Toxische Weiblichkeit
The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich
The Gift of Not Belonging: How Outsiders Thrive in a World of Joiners
Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century
How to Let Things Go: 99 Tips from a Zen Buddhist Monk to Relinquish Control and Free Yourself Up for What Matters
No-cosas: Quiebras del mundo de hoy
How Economics Explains the World: A Short History of Humanity
Infocracia: La digitalización y la crisis de la democracia
Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right
The War on the West: An Instant NYT Bestselling History of the Modern World
Equality: What It Means and Why It Matters
Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation
Cult Following: The Extreme Sects That Capture Our Imaginations―and Take Over Our Lives
Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America's School Curricula
Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class
Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things
In This Economy?: How Money & Markets Really Work
Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy
The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World
Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth
End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration
Futuro ancestral
Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life
Freedom
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World
Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey
Résister à la culpabilisation
Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change
To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical Right
Wired for Love: A Neuroscientist's Journey Through Romance, Loss, and the Essence of Human Connection
The Mixed Marriage Project: A Memoir of Love, Race, and Family
How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World
The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End
Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America
The Genius Myth: A Curious History of a Dangerous Idea
Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans
Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2 - The Pillars of Civilization
Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash
A Brief History of Equality
Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth, and Power
May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics and Studies Exploit Our Biases - And What We Can Do About It
100 Things We've Lost to the Internet
Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe
Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity
Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism
Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America's Future
Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories
The Echo Machine: How Right-Wing Extremism Created a Post-Truth America
Liberalism and Its Discontents
Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There
The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost its Mind
Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia
Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net
The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic
Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us
The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power
A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life
Freedom’s Dominion:  A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human
Rebellion: How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart – Again
Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist
American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15
In Control: Dangerous Relationships and How They End in Murder
Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right
Please Unsubscribe, Thanks!: How to Take Back Our Time, Attention, and Purpose in a World Designed to Bury Us in Bullshit
The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free
Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto)
The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America
The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society
Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization
Believe: The Untold Story Behind Ted Lasso, the Show That Kicked Its Way into Our Hearts
Seeking Shelter: A Working Mother, Her Children, and a Story of Homelessness in America
Triggerpunkte. Konsens und Konflikt in der Gegenwartsgesellschaft
This Mortal Coil: A History of Death
Peak Human: What We Can Learn from History's Greatest Civilisations
Educated By Tara Westover, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis By J. D. Vance 2 Books Collection Set
Health Communism
Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
Adrift: America in 100 Charts
The Truth About Immigration: Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers
Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture
The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town

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I am an anthropologist who lost faith in her own method, who stopped believing that observable activity defined anthropos.
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Dalma Heyn
Married women are far more depressed than married men -- in unhappy marriages, three times more; and -- interestingly -- in happy marriages, five times more. In truth, it is men who are thriving in marriage, now as always, and who show symptoms of psychological and physical distress outside it. Not only their emotional well-being but their very lives, some studies say, depend on being married!
Dalma Heyn

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