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Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 309 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 851,710 ratings — published 2008
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 290 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 889,334 ratings — published 2005
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 276 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 847,357 ratings — published 2000
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 237 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 448,563 ratings — published 1997
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 221 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 616,953 ratings — published 2005
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 213 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,219,187 ratings — published 2011
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 212 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 571,595 ratings — published 2011
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 180 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 468,475 ratings — published 2012
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 151 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.20 — 64,145 ratings — published 2012
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 148 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 129,948 ratings — published 2008
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 146 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.00 — 331,656 ratings — published 2019
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.47 — 111,127 ratings — published 2016
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.93 — 74,116 ratings — published 2004
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 125 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 281,635 ratings — published 2015
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.52 — 115,694 ratings — published 2010
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.97 — 190,105 ratings — published 2013
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.36 — 198,643 ratings — published 2018
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 160,334 ratings — published 2019
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.84 — 93,383 ratings — published 2008
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.53 — 157,618 ratings — published 2020
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 102 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.65 — 194,805 ratings — published 2001
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,356 ratings — published 2010
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.00 — 133,860 ratings — published 2009
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 95 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 170,785 ratings — published 2018
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 552,966 ratings — published 2012
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 104,304 ratings — published 2009
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,413 ratings — published 2018
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.27 — 58,067 ratings — published 2023
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 60,284 ratings — published 2012
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 120,051 ratings — published 2007
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.91 — 42,199 ratings — published 2017
Modern Romance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.80 — 189,550 ratings — published 2015
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.84 — 493,477 ratings — published 2016
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.68 — 191,607 ratings — published 1848
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 8,796 ratings — published 2000
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.20 — 31,922 ratings — published 2018
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 36,719 ratings — published 1985
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.91 — 14,831 ratings — published 1904
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.22 — 172,651 ratings — published 1984
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.36 — 118,652 ratings — published 2019
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.97 — 52,053 ratings — published 2012
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 70 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.23 — 54,179 ratings — published 2018
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.02 — 32,677 ratings — published 2018
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.33 — 148,214 ratings — published 2024
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.81 — 111,660 ratings — published 2021
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 77,260 ratings — published 2019
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.40 — 359,534 ratings — published 2015
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.37 — 844,732 ratings — published 1946
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as social-science)
avg rating 4.44 — 44,679 ratings — published 2017
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as social-science)
avg rating 3.75 — 206,349 ratings — published 2001
“Woman's sexual problems are, in this sense, by-products of the suppression of her basic need to grow and fulfill her potentialities as a human being, potentialities which the mystique of feminine fulfillment ignores.”
― The Feminine Mystique
― The Feminine Mystique
“...obscurantist feature in social scientists trying to combine pluralism with environmentalism. They are so preoccupied with the role of prejudice in creating hostile environments that they perpetually deny the obvious, that stereotypes are rough generalizations about groups derived from long-term observation. Such generalizations are usually correct in describing group tendencies and in predicting certain collective actions, even if they do not adequately account for differences among individuals. Nonetheless, as Goldberg explains, the self-described pluralist and prominent psychologist Gordon Allport went out of his way in The Nature of Prejudice (1954) to reject stereotypes as factually inaccurate as well as socially harmful. For Allport and a great many other social Scientists, nothing is intuitively correct unless it is politically so.”
― After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State.
― After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State.
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