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Sociology
An annotated collection of 2 books on sociology, spanning 1996 to 2020. Featuring works by Manuel Castells, Joseph Henrich — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.
The Rise of the Network Society
Manuel Castells, 1996 · Blackwell Publishers — Vol. 1 of The Information Age
The network as an organisational form that replaces industrial hierarchy. Castells argues that the informational technology revolution is building a new social structure where power and productivity depend on the ability…
The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
Joseph Henrich, 2020 · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Henrich argues that "WEIRD" populations — Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, Democratic — are cognitively and psychologically unusual compared to the rest of human history and most of the contemporary world, and th…