David Brooks is an op-ed columnist for The New York Times. He has been a senior editor at The Weekly Standard and a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Atlantic Monthly, and he is a weekly commentator on PBS NewsHour. He is the author of the bestseller Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There and On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense.
发表于2024-05-16
The Social Animal 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
撇开所有对功利性目的追求,人们学习社会学的最初动力是什么呢? 了解自己,说得更大一点,了解人类。 人类是这么奇怪复杂的生物,自己研究自己,出了一波又一波的理论,一波一波推翻,还是难以解释自己的行为。很少有人能真正分析清楚童年经历对自己的影响,很多时候我们以为...
评分《纽约时报》知名专栏作家戴维·布鲁克斯的新书《社会动物》向我们讲述了一对平常夫妻美国梦的实现——丈夫哈罗德出身中产阶级,妻子埃丽卡来自贫民区破碎家庭,他们没有显赫的家世背景,也没有过人的天赋奇才,却都凭借自己良好的性格、坚定的信念、过人的勤奋取得了成功。 ...
评分长久以来,传统的教育和成长环境,让许多人都认为,理想化的理性思维以及卓尔不群的智力是人生成就的唯一原因和动力因素。 这一观点曾经长久以来深深植根于人们的脑海,甚至许多人在社会分工的工作之后,还一直信奉这样的信条,他们机械的认为行为只有对的和错的之分。“对的...
评分畅销书这个概念似乎也是舶来品。要是听到某书蝉联一些声名显赫的排行榜数周,想必很多人对这本书都有一窥真容的欲望。畅销书也有一些共通的特质,比如很符合当下社会时代背景,引述热门话题、人物;书中抛出的道理都像是从你生活中自然衍生出来的,读者不会有陌生感,看完全书...
评分大卫·布鲁克斯在《社会动物》中塑造了一个由埃丽卡和哈罗德构成的美国中产阶级家庭,以及一个由美国中产阶级家庭为生活参照的美国社会,更重要的是他塑造了一种以智性自恃的社会性动物,他们成为人类社会的全部成员。这样的人类成员、这样的家庭和这样的社会不仅仅是被大...
图书标签: 心理学 社会学 Sociology Psychology DavidBrooks 社會學 社会 英文原版
With unequaled insight and brio, David Brooks, the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bobos in Paradise, has long explored and explained the way we live. Now, with the intellectual curiosity and emotional wisdom that make his columns among the most read in the nation, Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing in a multilayered, profoundly illuminating work grounded in everyday life.
This is the story of how success happens. It is told through the lives of one composite American couple, Harold and Erica—how they grow, push forward, are pulled back, fail, and succeed. Distilling a vast array of information into these two vividly realized characters, Brooks illustrates a fundamental new understanding of human nature. A scientific revolution has occurred—we have learned more about the human brain in the last thirty years than we had in the previous three thousand. The unconscious mind, it turns out, is most of the mind—not a dark, vestigial place but a creative and enchanted one, where most of the brain's work gets done. This is the realm of emotions, intuitions, biases, longings, genetic predispositions, personality traits, and social norms: the realm where character is formed and where our most important life decisions are made. The natural habitat of The Social Animal.
Drawing on a wealth of current research from numerous disciplines, Brooks takes Harold and Erica from infancy to school; from the "odyssey years" that have come to define young adulthood to the high walls of poverty; from the nature of attachment, love, and commitment, to the nature of effective leadership. He reveals the deeply social aspect of our very minds and exposes the bias in modern culture that overemphasizes rationalism, individualism, and IQ. Along the way, he demolishes conventional definitions of success while looking toward a culture based on trust and humility.
The Social Animal is a moving and nuanced intellectual adventure, a story of achievement and a defense of progress. Impossible to put down, it is an essential book for our time, one that will have broad social impact and will change the way we see ourselves and the world.
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评分想要八星推荐的书。满是基础知识和日常可以观察到的现象,但被系统地表述出来以后看得人很沸腾啊……
评分作者挖坑能力比填坑能力强很多,就当练习英语阅读了。
评分好有趣!
评分终于还是读完了。“our perception of the world is a fantasy that coincides with reality” 还是赞的。
The Social Animal 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书