The Social Animal

Author : David Brooks
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812979374

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The Social Animal by David Brooks Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With unequaled insight and brio, New York Times columnist David Brooks has long explored and explained the way we live. Now Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing in a multilayered, profoundly illuminating work grounded in everyday life. This is the story of how success happens, told through the lives of one composite American couple, Harold and Erica. Drawing on a wealth of current research from numerous disciplines, Brooks takes Harold and Erica from infancy to old age, illustrating a fundamental new understanding of human nature along the way: The unconscious mind, it turns out, is not a dark, vestigial place, but a creative one, where most of the brain’s work gets done. This is the realm where character is formed and where our most important life decisions are made—the natural habitat of The Social Animal. Brooks reveals the deeply social aspect of our minds and exposes the bias in modern culture that overemphasizes rationalism, individualism, and IQ. He demolishes conventional definitions of success and looks toward a culture based on trust and humility. The Social Animal is a moving intellectual adventure, a story of achievement and a defense of progress. It is an essential book for our time—one that will have broad social impact and will change the way we see ourselves and the world.

Author : David Brooks
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780743262859

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On Paradise Drive by David Brooks Pdf

The author of the acclaimed bestseller Bobos in Paradise, which hilariously described the upscale American culture, takes a witty look at how being American shapes us, and how America's suburban civilization will shape the world's future. Take a look at Americans in their natural habitat. You see suburban guys at Home Depot doing that special manly, waddling walk that American men do in the presence of large amounts of lumber; super-efficient ubermoms who chair school auctions, organize the PTA, and weigh less than their children; workaholic corporate types boarding airplanes while talking on their cell phones in a sort of panic because they know that when the door closes they have to turn their precious phone off and it will be like somebody stepped on their trachea. Looking at all this, you might come to the conclusion that we Americans are not the most profound people on earth. Indeed, there are millions around the world who regard us as the great bimbos of the globe: hardworking and fun, but also materialistic and spiritually shallow. They've got a point. As you drive through the sprawling suburbs or eat in the suburban chain restaurants (which if they merged would be called Chili's Olive Garden Hard Rock Outback Cantina), questions do occur. Are we really as shallow as we look? Is there anything that unites us across the divides of politics, race, class, and geography? What does it mean to be American? Well, mentality matters, and sometimes mentality is all that matters. As diverse as we are, as complacent as we sometimes seem, Americans are united by a common mentality, which we have inherited from our ancestors and pass on, sometimes unreflectingly, to our kids. We are united by future-mindedness. We see the present from the vantage point of the future. We are tantalized, at every second of every day, by the awareness of grand possibilities ahead of us, by the bounty we can realize just over the next ridge. This mentality leads us to work feverishly hard, move more than any other people on earth, switch jobs, switch religions. It makes us anxious and optimistic, manic and discombobulating. Even in the superficiality of modern suburban life, there is some deeper impulse still throbbing in the heart of average Americans. That impulse is the subject of this book.

Author : Elliot Aronson,Joshua Aronson
Publisher : Macmillan Higher Education
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781464178719

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The Social Animal by Elliot Aronson,Joshua Aronson Pdf

An entertaining, research-based introduction to modern social psychology. A landmark text that maintains its relevance and unique approach edition after edition, The Social Animal offers you a brief, compelling introduction to modern social psychology. Through vivid narrative, lively presentations of important research, and intriguing examples, Elliot Aronson probes the patterns and motives of human behavior, covering such diverse topics as terrorism, conformity, obedience, politics, race relations, advertising, war, interpersonal attraction, and the power of religious cults. Now with a stronger focus on evolutionary and neuroscientific approaches throughout, this entertaining masterpiece will illuminate the study of human behaviors through real-life scenarios you’ll relate to.

Author : Joshua Aronson,Elliot Aronson
Publisher : Macmillan Higher Education
Page : 906 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781319280314

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Readings about The Social Animal by Joshua Aronson,Elliot Aronson Pdf

Exploring the key ideas in social psychology, this collection of classic and contemporary readings includes accounts of specific experimental findings as well as more general articles summarizing studies on such topics as attraction, prejudice, and aggression. The new edition adds 15 new readings while retaining a number of classics by leading psychological thinkers such as Stanley Milgram on obedience and Solomon Asch on conformity. Readings makes the perfect companion for the Aronson's highly praised book, The Social Animal as it follows the same major themes. The Reader can also be used with any introductory social psychology text or even in lieu of a text. Using both The Social Animal textbook and the reader is a unique and engaging combination for understanding social psychology and its research.

Author : Elliot Aronson
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 071675715X

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The Social Animal by Elliot Aronson Pdf

Newly revised and up-to-date, this edition of The Social Animal is a brief, compelling introduction to modern social psychology. Through vivid narrative, lively presentations of important research, and intriguing examples, Elliot Aronson probes the patterns and motives of human behavior, covering such diverse topics as terrorism, conformity, obedience, politics, race relations, advertising, war, interpersonal attraction, and the power of religious cults.

Author : Elliot Aronson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Social psychology
ISBN : UCAL:B4911129

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The Social Animal by Elliot Aronson Pdf

Author : David Brooks
Publisher : Short Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1780720378

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The Social Animal by David Brooks Pdf

From the influential and hugely popular "New York Times" columnist and bestselling author of "Bobos in Paradise" comes a landmark exploration of how human beings and communities succeed.

Author : Ashley Ward
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781541600843

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The Social Lives of Animals by Ashley Ward Pdf

A rat will go out of its way to help a stranger in need. Lions have adopted the calves of their prey. Ants farm fungus in cooperatives. Why do we continue to believe that life in the animal kingdom is ruled by competition? In The Social Lives of Animals, biologist Ashley Ward takes us on a wild tour across the globe as he searches for a more accurate picture of how animals build societies. Ward drops in on a termite mating ritual (while his guides snack on the subjects), visits freelance baboon goatherds, and swims with a mixed family of whales and dolphins. Along the way, Ward shows that the social impulses we’ve long thought separated humans from other animals might actually be our strongest connection to them. Insightful, engaging, and often hilarious, The Social Lives of Animals demonstrates that you can learn more about animals by studying how they work together than by how they compete.

Author : Elliot Aronson,Joshua Aronson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : PSU:000061576445

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Readings About The Social Animal by Elliot Aronson,Joshua Aronson Pdf

This collection of classic and contemporary articles on important ideas and issues in social psychology complements The Social Animal 10th edition, by Elliot Aronson but can be used with any introductory social psychology text.

Author : Clifton P. Flynn
Publisher : Lantern Books
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781590561232

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Social Creatures by Clifton P. Flynn Pdf

In more than thirty essays, Social Animals examines the role of animals in human society. Collected from a wide range of periodicals and books, these important works of scholarship examine such issues as how animal shelter workers view the pets in their care, why some people hoard animals, animals and women who experience domestic abuse, philosophical and feminist analyses of our moral obligations toward animals, and many other topics.

Author : Margo DeMello
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780231152945

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Animals and Society by Margo DeMello Pdf

This textbook provides a full overview of human-animal studies. It focuses on the conceptual construction of animals in American culture and the way in which it reinforces and perpetuates hierarchical human relationships rooted in racism, sexism, and class privilege.

Author : Darren P. Croft,Richard James,Jens Krause
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781400837762

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Exploring Animal Social Networks by Darren P. Croft,Richard James,Jens Krause Pdf

Social network analysis is used widely in the social sciences to study interactions among people, groups, and organizations, yet until now there has been no book that shows behavioral biologists how to apply it to their work on animal populations. Exploring Animal Social Networks provides a practical guide for researchers, undergraduates, and graduate students in ecology, evolutionary biology, animal behavior, and zoology. Existing methods for studying animal social structure focus either on one animal and its interactions or on the average properties of a whole population. This book enables researchers to probe animal social structure at all levels, from the individual to the population. No prior knowledge of network theory is assumed. The authors give a step-by-step introduction to the different procedures and offer ideas for designing studies, collecting data, and interpreting results. They examine some of today's most sophisticated statistical tools for social network analysis and show how they can be used to study social interactions in animals, including cetaceans, ungulates, primates, insects, and fish. Drawing from an array of techniques, the authors explore how network structures influence individual behavior and how this in turn influences, and is influenced by, behavior at the population level. Throughout, the authors use two software packages--UCINET and NETDRAW--to illustrate how these powerful analytical tools can be applied to different animal social organizations.

Author : Walter Garrison Runciman
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0472067303

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The Social Animal by Walter Garrison Runciman Pdf

What kind of social animal are we? A provocative and stimulating answer

Author : Ted Benton
Publisher : Verso
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0860913937

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Natural Relations by Ted Benton Pdf

In this challenging book, Ted Benton takes recent debates about the moral status of animals as a basis for reviewing the discourse of "human rights." Liberal-individualist views of human rights and advocates of animal rights tend to think of individuals, whether human or animals, in isolation from their social position. This makes them vulnerable to criticisms from the left which emphasize the importance of social relationships to individual well-being. Benton's argument supports the important assumption, underpinning the cause for human rights, that humans and other species of animal have much in common, both in the conditions for their well-being and their vulnerability to harm. Both liberal rights theory and its socialist critique fail adequately to theorize these aspects of human vulnerability. Nevertheless, it is argued that, enriched by feminist and ecological insights, a socialist view of rights has much to offer. Lucid and wide-ranging in its argument, Natural Relations enables the outline of an ecological socialist view of rights and justice to begin to take shape.

Author : Roy F. Baumeister
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005-02-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199727391

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The Cultural Animal by Roy F. Baumeister Pdf

This book provides a coherent explanation of human nature, which is to say how people think, act, and feel, what they want, and how they interact with each other. The central idea is that the human psyche was designed by evolution to `nable people to create and sustain culture.