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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Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences
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Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
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Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
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All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
Infocracia: La digitalización y la crisis de la democracia
How Economics Explains the World: A Short History of Humanity
Outliers: The Story of Success
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

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In saying no one knew about the ideas implicit in the telegraph, I am not quite accurate. Thoreau knew. Or so one may surmise. It is alleged that upon being told that through the telegraph a man in Maine could instantly send a message to a man in Texas, Thoreau asked, "But what do they have to say to each other?" In asking this question, to which no serious interest was paid, Thoreau was directing attention to the psychological and social meaning of the telegraph, and in particular to its capaci ...more
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Nicholas D. Kristof, Freedom of the High School Press

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