We Built Reality: How Social Science Infiltrated Culture, Politics, and Power

Over the last fifty years, pseudoscience has crept into nearly every facet of our lives. Popular sciences...
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We Built Reality: How Social Science Infiltrated Culture, Politics, and Power by Blakely, Jason

We Built Reality: How Social Science Infiltrated Culture, Politics, and Power

¥11,082

We Built Reality: How Social Science Infiltrated Culture, Politics, and Power

¥11,082
Author: Jason Blakely
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Over the last fifty years, pseudoscience has crept into nearly every facet of our lives. Popular sciences of everything from dating and economics, to voting and artificial intelligence, radically changed the world today. The abuse of popular scientific authority has catastrophic consequences, contributing to the 2008 financial crisis; the failure to predict the rise of Donald Trump; increased tensions between poor communities and the police; and the sidelining of nonscientific forms of knowledge and wisdom. In We Built Reality, Jason Blakely explains how recent social science theories have not simply described political realities but also helped create them. But he also offers readers a way out of the culture of scientism: hermeneutics, or the art of interpretation. Hermeneutics urges sensitivity to the historical and cultural contexts of human behavior. It gives ordinary people a way to appreciate the insights of the humanities in guiding decisions. As Blakely contends, we need
insights from the humanities to see how social science theories never simply neutrally describe reality, they also help build it.


Author: Jason Blakely
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 07/01/2020
Pages: 184
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.30w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780190087388

About the Author

Jason Blakely is Associate Professor of Political Science at Pepperdine University. He is the author of Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, and the Demise of Naturalism and, with Mark Bevir, of Interpretive Social Science (Oxford).

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