"Science of Identity" Us and Them: The Science of Identity: David Berreby: Amazon Books »
Posted By LStradmore 11 months, 1 week ago in Science & TechnologyUs and Them: The Science of Identity by David Berreby. I love this book. It gives you a good foundation for understanding an impossibly large question: what is it about the human mind that makes us believe in categories like race, gender and ethnicity?
Our social institutions are premised on the theory that individuals are rational, about themselves and their choices, if not about the larger world. As evidence mounts that this is not true, what happens to those institutions -- to courts, elections, markets, medical care?
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Middle age does not seem to be in the middle anymore. Seeking the answers to life before life is gone.
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