By Alain de Botton
All of us fear approximately what others think about us. all of us lengthy to be successful and worry failure. all of us endure to a better or lesser measure, frequently privately and with embarrassment from prestige anxiousness. For the 1st time, Alain de Botton supplies a reputation to this common and units out to enquire either its origins and attainable strategies. He seems to be at background, philosophy, economics, paintings and politics and divulges the numerous inventive ways in which nice minds have conquer their concerns. the result's a e-book that isn't simply enjoyable and thought-provoking yet certainly clever and precious besides.
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WHERE DID SOCIOLOGY COME FROM? xxx PREFACE 17 3 How Do We Know What We Know? As mentioned above, this feature enables us to show students how methods actually work in the exploration of sociological problems. Instead of confining methods to its own chapter, and then ignoring it for the remainder of the book, we ask, for example, how sociologists measure social mobility (Chapter 7), or how we use statistics to examine the relationship between race and intelligence (Chapter 8), or how participant observation studies of gangs have changed our views of inner-city life (Chapter 6).
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