Social Psychology category: 7378 books
Republic of Outsiders
The Power of Amateurs, Dreamers, and Rebels
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
“Vivid portraits” of individuals and subcultures by a writer who “unmasks the assumptions we make about what counts as normal” (The New York Times).
They are outsiders who seek to redefine fields from mental health to diplomacy to music. They push boundaries and transform ideas. They...
Generation Jan
The X'ers as Middle Children
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
As the first wave of Baby Boomers begins to retire, their departure presents an awkward power vacuum in the American cultural, political, and business arenas. Though many members of Generation X expected to inherit the reins of power and influence in the late 2000s, workplace trends at the time showed...
Can't We All Disagree More Constructively?
from The Righteous Mind
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
As America descends deeper into polarization and paralysis, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt* *has done the seemingly impossible—he has explained the origins of morality, politics, and religion in a way that speaks to everyone on the political spectrum.
Drawing on twenty-five years of groundbreaking...
Clash!
How to Thrive in a Multicultural World
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
“If you fear that cultural, political, and class differences are tearing America apart, read this important book.” —Jonathan Haidt, Ph.D., author of The Righteous Mind
Who will rule in the twenty-first century: allegedly more disciplined Asians, or allegedly more creative Westerners?...
The End of Absence
Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Soon enough, nobody will remember life before the Internet. What does this unavoidable fact mean? Those of us who have lived both with and without the crowded connectivity of online life have a rare opportunity. We can still recognize the difference between Before and After. We catch ourselves idly...
The Essential Fromm
Life Between Having and Being
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
As Fromm points out, ours is “a life between having and being”—between mere having and healthy being, between destructiveness and creativity, between narcissism and productive self-understanding, between passivity and the joy of positive activity.
The alternatives of having and being are...
by J.P. Chaplin
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Martians, a reincarnated Irish woman, a dead movie star, an insane anesthetist, and an obsessed U.S. Attorney General ― these disparate characters have something in common. Each was at the center of an incident of mass hysteria, in which frightened, grieving, and otherwise disturbed people abandoned...
Spirit and Flesh
Life in a Fundamentalist Baptist Church
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
In an attempt to understand the growing popularity and influence of Christian fundamentalism, sociologist and documentary filmmaker James Ault spent three years inside the world of a Massachusetts fundamentalist church.Spirit and Flesh takes us into worship services, home Bible studies, youth events,...
Just a Dog
Animal Cruelty, Self, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2006
Psychiatrists define cruelty to animals as a psychological problem or personality disorder. Legally, animal cruelty is described by a list of behaviors. In Just a Dog, Arnold Arluke argues that our current constructs of animal cruelty are decontextualized—imposed without regard to the experience...
The Narcissism Epidemic
Living in the Age of Entitlement
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Narcissism -- a very positive and inflated view of the self -- is everywhere. It's what you have if you're a politician and you've strayed from your wife, and it's whyÊfive times as many Americans undergo plastic surgery and cosmetic procedures today than did just ten years ago. It's the value that...
Instant Networking
The Simple Way to Build Your Business Network and See Results in Just 6 Months
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
A fresh take on the vital business skill of networking
Networking is something that many of us dread and try to avoid at all costs. But no longer the sole remit of sales people, it has become a vital business skill for us all. Expected to negotiate effectively through our careers, social lives...
Head in the Cloud
Why Knowing Things Still Matters When Facts Are So Easy to Look Up
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
The real-world value of knowledge in the mobile-device age.
More people know who Khloe Kardashian is than who Rene Descartes was. Most can't find Delaware on a map, correctly spell the word occurrence, or name the largest ocean on the planet. But how important is it to fill our heads with facts?...
Rush
Why We Thrive in the Rat Race
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
We think we will be happy when we have some downtime-when we can finally go on vacation, disconnect, shut down. But in this provocative book, Todd Buchholz will convince you that what you really want is to chase your tail-even if you never catch it. Weaving in everything from neuroeconomics to evolutionary...
New
Understanding Our Need for Novelty and Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011
Why are we attuned to the latest headline, diet craze, smartphone, fashion statement? Why do we relish a change of scene, eye attractive strangers, develop new interests?
How did Homo sapiens survive near-extinction during an environmental crisis 80,000 years ago, while close cousins very like...