{"product_id":"we-built-reality-how-social-science-infiltrated-culture-politics-and-power-paperback","title":"We Built Reality: How Social Science Infiltrated Culture, Politics, and Power - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJason Blakely\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver 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 \u003cem\u003eWe Built Reality\u003c\/em\u003e, 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\u003cbr\u003einsights from the humanities to see how social science theories never simply neutrally describe reality, they also help build it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJason Blakely \u003c\/strong\u003eis Associate Professor of Political Science at Pepperdine University. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eAlasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, and the Demise of Naturalism \u003c\/em\u003eand, with Mark Bevir, of \u003cem\u003eInterpretive Social Science\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.1 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 01, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44289397948518,"sku":"9780190087388","price":74.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/dW1KMW5rWisvZzZ1dnA1TlJ0T2gyUT09.webp?v=1766749043","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/we-built-reality-how-social-science-infiltrated-culture-politics-and-power-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}