Social Identity Theory

In 2014, Francis Fukuyama wrote that American institutions were in decay, as the state was progressively captured by powerful interest groups. Two years later, his predictions were borne out by the rise to power of a series of political outsiders whose economic nationalism and authoritarian tendencies threatened to destabilize the entire international order. These populist nationalists seek direct charismatic connection to “the people”, who are usually defined in narrow identity terms that offer an irresistible call to an in-group and exclude large parts of the population as a whole.

This is a book about ideas. Specifically, this is a book about the evolution of a certain set of ideas, and how these ideas have come to dominate every important discussion about race, gender, and identity today. Have you heard someone refer to language as literal violence, or say that science is sexist? Or declare that being obese is healthy, or that there is no such thing as biological sex? Or that valuing hard work, individualism, and even punctuality is evidence of white supremacy? 

Bloomsbury presents How to Be a Social Worker: Developing Your Professional Identity by Priscilla Dunk-West read by Esmee Cooke When studying social work, it can be difficult to find the time to step back and think about what it actually means to be a social worker. Now in its third edition, How...

In Scriptual Life Theory™, independent scholar Caleb Anthony Farmer introduces a comprehensive framework for understanding how human beings are shaped by invisible scripts operating through family, culture, institutions, relationships, environments, language, technology, and spiritual formation. Drawing from sociology, psychology, theology, cognitive science, and personal reflection, this work explores how patterns become embedded in human experience and how individuals can develop the awareness necessary to examine, challenge, and rewrite those patterns.

An exploration into the curation of the self in Western civilization from Da Vinci to Kim Kardashian. In a technologically-saturated era where nearly everything can be effortlessly and digitally reproduced, we're all hungry to carve out our own unique personalities, our own bespoke personae, to...

This book examines how authority in the United States is organized, how it shifted over time, and why the system now feels unstable and adversarial regardless of which party holds power. It is not about elections or candidates. It is an examination of how the system itself works and how it drifted away from the balance it was designed to maintain. At its core, the book focuses on federalism.