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Psychology, sociology and archaeology: the sciences of people, minds and societies, explained without the jargon.

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The sciences of people play by harder rules: their subjects talk back, change their minds and behave differently when watched. This shelf covers the disciplines that study us anyway, including psychology, sociology and archaeology, explained with the same respect for evidence as any other science on the site.

The concept guides take on the ideas these fields actually argue about: cultural hegemony, acculturation, deductive reasoning and its limits, matriarchy and patriarchy as social structures rather than slogans. The psychology entries explain mechanisms of mind and behavior, and the archaeology pieces cover how we read the people who cannot answer questions anymore.

Browse the featured guides above or the list for a specific concept or thinker. One standing rule: these articles explain research and never prescribe. What a finding means for your life is a conversation for a person, not a page.

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A Simple Explanation of the Ethnomethodology Theory of Sociology

Ethnomethodology, in simple words, is about the methods people employ to make sense of the everyday world. Something like a casual question asking your friend about how his/her weekend was could turn into an ethnomethodological case study. ScienceStruck explains how.

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