——《如何阅读一本书》笔记 19
Part 3 Approaches to Different Kinds of Reading Matter
CH19 How to Read Social Science
我们每个人的生活离不开社会，每天接触的资料，交谈都会不自觉的带出社会科学的术语。不论是新闻还是当代的书籍文章或多或少借用了社会科学的思想意识和语言，似乎社会科学对我们来说非常熟悉。
但是社会科学仿佛是个最熟悉的陌生人，如何给它定义是件不容易的事。作者给的定义是（至少就这一章节来说）：
人类学、经济学、政治学、社会学构成了社会科学的核心，大部分的法律、教育、公共管理、商业、社会服务及大量的心理学作品都属于社会科学的定义范畴。
阅读障碍：
1.由于媒体滥用社会科学术语，导致我们没有真正理解这些术语，加之作者定义社科用语的难度的，造成阅读的第一道障碍；
2.社科领域的作品通常混杂其它领域的知识，比如社科中混杂科学，哲学，历史等等，或是有虚构文学的影子；
3.容易带有个人偏见阅读，拒绝接受作者的观点
4.社会科学作品的阅读更适用于主题阅读，针对同一主题阅读多本书
Words & Phrases (每日五词）
1.specious
superficially plausible, but actually wrong
似是而非的：
a specious argument.
一个似是而非的论点。
2. anthropology
the study of humankind, in particular
人类学, 尤指：
3. aberrant society，abortive society, acquiescent society, acquisitive society
aberrant: departing from an accepted standard
acquiescent: (of a person) ready to accept something without protest, or to do what someone else wants 默许的, 默从的。
acquisitive: excessively interested in acquiring money or material things（对金钱或物质）渴望得到的, 贪婪的。
Summary of chapter 19
In this chapter, the author tells usit is hard to define social science. However, at least for the purpose of this chapter, social science is define as following:
- Such fields as anthropology, economics, politics, and sociology constitute a kind of central core of social science, which almost all social scientists would include in any definition.
- The literature of such fields as law, education, and public administration, and some of the literature of such fields as business and social service, together with a considerable portion of psychological literature, falls within the confines of a reasonable definition.
The concept and terminology of social science is used widely, which makes us feel it is easy to read literature of social science. But the fact is that we do not really understand what it means, which causes reading problems. See below difficulties of reading social science.
1. Do not be afraid of questioning the author’s optioning.
2. Readers tend to be misled about familiar terms.
3. Much social science is a mixture of science, philosophy, and history, often with some fiction.
4. The author suggests Social science should be read synoptically.
感悟：
我们从小到大，天天接触阅读，所以认为阅读很简单；社科的观念和术语几乎渗透到所有我们阅读的作品中，然后错误的认为社科阅读很简单。熟悉的背后其实是一知半解，这种混沌的状态很可怕。天天接触，并不意味着你真的明白。那些所谓的熟悉的事物，你真的了解吗？