Social Truths

Description:

Social Truths is about better understanding society to better understand ourselves. This book lays out a buffet of sociological nuggets about society, allowing you to take in deep concepts in bite-sized ways that are easily digestible and surprisingly delicious. Bon appetit!

subjects: sociology,  consume,  work,  play,  live,  love,  die,  organize,  dream,  eat,  norms,  rule,  culture,  resist,  capital,  sustainable,  behavior,  names,  language,  meatphors,  structure,  networks,  family,  society,  change,  groups,  people,  societies,  costs,  common sense,  race,  class,  sex,  gender,  sexuality,  ethnicity,  power,  criminal,  action,  resistance,  belief systems,  jokes,  stories,  art,  rituals,  friends,  money,  governments,  corporations,  history,  powerlessness,  victim,  beliefs,  economics,  politics,  symbols,  post-modernism,  knowledge

People: Einstein,  Occam,  Karl Marx (1818-1883),  durkheim,  weber,  Michel Foucault (1926-1984),  gladwell,  kuhn,  mill,  mills,  douglass,  danaher,  Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin kni︠a︡zʹ (1842-1921),  feuerbach,  goffman,  granovetter,  tilly,  tarrow,  William Shakespeare (1564-1616),  Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937),  scott,  zimbardo,  milgram,  asch,  phillips,  goleman,  ryan,  parenti,  Howard Zinn (1922-2010),  wolf,  George Orwell (1903-1950),  ritzer,  hughes,  geertz,  hardin,  whitehead,  butler,  calhoun,  king,  schrodinger,  simmel,  Heraclitus,  Euripides,  veblen,  packard,  donne,  giddens,  sewell,  lakoff,  merton,  mead,  lippman,  thomas,  berger