Understanding Humans: How Social Science Can Help Solve Our Problems

Edmonds, David

ISBN 10: 1529680174 / ISBN 13: 9781529680171

Published by SAGE Publications Ltd, 2023

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Understanding Humans: How Social Science Can Help Solve Our Problems
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1529680174
• ISBN 13: 9781529680171
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Compiling the best episodes of SAGE′s ′Social Science Bites′ podcast since its beginning in 2012, this pocket-sized volume is sure to inspire and provoke.  With a foreword by David Edmonds, host of the podcast, this book will show you how social science can help to solve problems in today′s society.  It is structured into sections on identity, learning, human behaviour, social change, and the unexpected, with each chapter offering the perspective of one of the most dynamic thinkers in the social sciences.

Taking a multidisciplinary approach, Edmonds′ selection of interviews includes topics such as racial inequality, moral psychology, the pandemic, and the prison system.  Interviewees include Sam Friedman, Professor of Sociology at LSE, Gurminder K. Bhambra, Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies at the University of Sussex, and Jennifer Richeson, Professor of Psychology at Yale University.  This book will show you the range of voices in the social sciences today, and how this diversity is what is needed to grapple with the complexity of the issues we face.

About the Author

David Edmonds is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at Oxford University and a former BBC radio journalist.  He is the author or editor of many philosophy books (and one on chess) which together have been translated into over two dozen languages.  These include (with John Eidinow), Wittgenstein’s Poker and, most recently, a biography, Parfit: A Philosopher and his Mission to Save Morality.  As well as Social Science Bites, David also hosts a couple of philosophy podcasts. Philosophy Bites, which he makes with Nigel Warburton, has had over 47 million downloads.