We built reality : how social science infiltrated culture, politics, and power / Jason Blakely.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020Description: 1 online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780190087418 (ebook) :Subject(s): Social sciences -- Study and teaching -- United States | Scientism
| Pseudoscience -- Social aspects -- United StatesAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780190087371DDC classification: 300.973 LOC classification: H62.5.U5 | .B53 2020Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: Popular culture is saturated with claims about a science of human life. Demographics are said to predict how we will vote; chemicals in our brains, who we'll date; game-like scenarios, how we'll spend our money; and genes, what we will think. This text explores this flood of scientism as it has spread in the last fifty years into almost all facets of daily existence. Readers will discover how popular pseudoscience has radically changed the world we live in, including spheres as different as dating, economics, politics, and artificial intelligence.
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Also issued in print: 2020.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Popular culture is saturated with claims about a science of human life. Demographics are said to predict how we will vote; chemicals in our brains, who we'll date; game-like scenarios, how we'll spend our money; and genes, what we will think. This text explores this flood of scientism as it has spread in the last fifty years into almost all facets of daily existence. Readers will discover how popular pseudoscience has radically changed the world we live in, including spheres as different as dating, economics, politics, and artificial intelligence.
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