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- The Ghost in the Machine
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1975
An analysis of the relationship between reason and imagination.
- Harter's Precept: Review of The Social Misconstruction of Reality: Validity and Verification in the Scholarly Community
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1997
Hamilton gives three major examples of erroneous theses that gained the status of fact in social science despite the absence of evidentiary support: (1) Max Weber's thesis that the Protestant Ethic spurred the advance of capitalism; (2) the widely accepted thesis that Hitler's main electoral support came from the lower middle classes (the despised petit bourgeoisie of Marxism); and (3) Michel Foucault's thesis that the modern prison evolved not as a more humane alternative to the cruel physical punishments of earlier centuries, but as part of a wide-ranging scheme by sinister forces to enforce a pervasive social conformity.
- On Rumours
How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2009
Describes the social and pyschological forces that make the spread of misinformation inevitable. Its argument runs like this: whether or not we choose to believe something, and whether we feel inclined to pass it on, depends largely on what we already believe.
- Stephen Schettini, Quiet Mind Seminars
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Talking to the Enemy
Faith, Brotherhood and the (Un)making of Terrorists
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2011
An anthropologiest explores the social ties and values of terrorists, studying militancy from a social science point of view. He uncovers that terrorists become radicalized through their social networks, the author dubs these group dynamics "organized anarchy".
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