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  title info:
    title: We built reality
    sub title: how social science infiltrated culture, politics, and power
  name:
    name part: Blakely, Jason
    name part: 1980-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: "Popular culture is saturated with claims to a science of human life. Demographics are said to predict how you'll vote; chemicals in your brain who you'll date; game-like scenarios how you'll spend your money; and genes what you'll think. This book explores this flood of scientism as it has spread in the last fifty years into almost all facets of daily existence. You'll discover how popular pseudoscience has radically changed the world we live in-in spheres as different as dating, economics, politics, and artificial intelligence. The abuse of popular scientific authority has had 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 side lining of non-scientific forms of knowledge and wisdom. But you also will learn a way out of the superstition and ideology of scientism. This book introduces readers to a movement called the "hermeneutic" or interpretive approach that promises to free ordinary people from the tyranny of pseudoscience. An interpretive approach to human life offers a way to become a better reader of both the many claims to science around you as well as the cultural spaces you inhabit and help create"--
  table of contents: Introduction: Election day 2016 -- Our free market scientists -- Republic Inc. -- Genes and machines -- The machinist ethos -- Sciences of zero tolerance -- Empire of light -- Conclusion: Reading social science again.
  note: Jason Blakely.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
    topic: Study and teaching
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Scientism
  subject:
    topic: Pseudoscience
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Scientisme
  subject:
    topic: Parasciences
    topic: Aspect social
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
  subject:
    topic: Scientism
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
    topic: Study and teaching
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  classification: H62.5.U5 B53 2020
  classification: 300.973
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    title info:
      title: We built reality
    name:
      name part: Blakely, Jason, 1980-
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]
    identifier: (DLC) 2019053611
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    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200209
    record change date: 20260319181931.4
    record identifier: in00005718337
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng