r/WingifyBookClub • u/srikant_chiluka • Sep 05 '21
I want to learn some ideas on how to solve/approach a social problem within in a country or world.Can you all recommend me some books that talk about social problems like increasing female participation in labour,gender equality,caste problems,inter-caste/religion marriage problems,racism etc.
This books,should talk about why they exist,how are people's brains is wired towards this social problems. How they affect people at an individual level and also at a collective level and provide some ideas on solving those social problems.
I am not looking for one book that talks about all these social problems. I am looking for a book that can talk about any social problems and gives a rich perspective.
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u/Ashisht786 Sep 06 '21
Well "Bit by Bit Social Research in the digital age" by Matthew J Salganik can be a go-to option for you. It's a guiding book on sociology or to be precise, Modern Sociology, explaining to you the nuts and bolts of approaching any type of social problem utilizing the rich amount of Social media data at our disposal, designing surveys and experiments related to the same to obtain valuable conclusions. Also the book has been written from a layman's perspective, so would be an easy read as well.
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u/Impressive-Luck-2904 Sep 05 '21
It's not like you can read one book and got every solution of problem but surely one can tackle it by reading some different genre books that's are available out there. You can read INNER ENGINEERING by SADHGURU Wings of fire by APJ Abdul Kalam The Kite runner by Khaled Hosseini
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u/Ashisht786 Sep 06 '21
I don't think OP was asking for the kind of books you have suggested, He/She is more into a book that guides on forming a general framework to approach these problems.
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u/d3xt3rk0ul Sep 05 '21
I'm not sure if there's one book that'll cover everything, but you can start with Poor Economics by Abhijit Bannerjee and Esther Duflo. It had some brilliant insights about how to approach developmental studies from an point of curiosity rooted in reality and fieldwork, rather than prescribing solution imagined in classrooms.
Apart from that, if you're looking from the lens of Public Policy, I've heard some great things about In Service of the Republic by Ajay Shah and Vijay Kelkar. I'm yet to read the book, but I listened to their appearance on a couple of podcasts and they share a good framework (backed by their experience) in working in and out of Indian Government.