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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Most Read This Week Tagged "Social Science"

Revenge of the Tipping Point
Poverty, by America
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
Toxische Weiblichkeit
Disney Adults: Exploring (and Falling in Love with) a Magical Subculture
Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
No-cosas: Quiebras del mundo de hoy
The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich
Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation
End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration
In This Economy?: How Money & Markets Really Work
Furious Minds: The Making of the Maga New Right
Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century
Equality: What It Means and Why It Matters
The Age of Diagnosis: How Our Obsession with Medical Labels Is Making Us Sicker
Infocracia: La digitalización y la crisis de la democracia
Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash
The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World
Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life
How to Let Things Go: 99 Tips from a Zen Buddhist Monk to Relinquish Control and Free Yourself Up for What Matters
The War on the West
Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
Integrated: How American Schools Failed Black Children
The Genius Myth: A Curious History of a Dangerous Idea
Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America's Future
A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life
Peak Human: What We Can Learn from History's Greatest Civilisations
The Mixed Marriage Project: A Memoir of Love, Race, and Family
Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth
Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
Freedom
The Gift of Not Belonging: How Outsiders Thrive in a World of Joiners
Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2 - The Pillars of Civilization
Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes
Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
Futuro ancestral
Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World
The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost its Mind
The Gospel of Wellness: Gyms, Gurus, Goop, and the False Promise of Self-Care
Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts
Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy
Other Rivers: A Chinese Education
On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
Liberalism and Its Discontents
The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End
Das Ende des Kapitalismus
Cult Following: The Extreme Sects That Capture Our Imaginations―and Take Over Our Lives
Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm
The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free
A Brief History of Equality
Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World
Seeking Shelter: A Working Mother, Her Children, and a Story of Homelessness in America
Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things
After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People
Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity
Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood
The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent
The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America
The Age of Grievance
Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America
Magic Words: The New Science of Language for Persuasion, Communication, and Driving Action
The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town
Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America
We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite
Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net
How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler
Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life
100 Things We've Lost to the Internet
Downeast: Five Maine Girls and the Unseen Story of Rural America
Humanish: What Talking to Your Cat or Naming Your Car Reveals About the Uniquely Human Need to Humanize
The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels
Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist
In Control: Dangerous Relationships and How They End in Murder
The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society
The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality
Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There
Outraged: Why We Fight About Morality and Politics and How to Find Common Ground
The Neuroscience of You: How Every Brain Is Different and How to Understand Yours
Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism
You and Your Profile: Identity After Authenticity
The Humanity Archive: Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth
Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge
The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back
Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey
Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives
The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World
How to Feed the World: A Factful Guide
America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything
Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us
May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics and Studies Exploit Our Biases - And What We Can Do About It
Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
The Art of Uncertainty: How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck
The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate

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Richard D. Wolff
Any individual exhibiting a personal instability comparable to the economic and social instability of capitalism would long ago have been required to seek professional help and to make basic changes.
Richard D. Wolff, Understanding Marxism

Herbert Marcuse
If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if the typist is as attractively made up as the daughter of her employer, if the Negro owns a Cadillac, if they all read the same newspaper, then this assimilation indicates not the disappearance of classes, but the extent to which the needs and satisfactions that serve the preservation of the Establishment are shared by the underlying population.
Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

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