Click here for NICC Library Webpage
Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
My Account
ID Information
Calmar New Materials
Peosta New Materials
Advanced
Alphabetical
Basic
History
Search:
General Keyword
Title Keyword
Author Keyword
Subject Keyword
ISBN/ISSN Exact Match
ISBN/ISSN Browse
Serial Title Browse
Title Alphabetical
Subject Alphabetical
Author Alphabetical
Alphabetical Series
Barcode
Bib No.
Journal/Newspaper Title Browse
Series Keyword
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Northeast Iowa Community College
Item Information
Holdings
More by this author
Segal, Elizabeth A., author.
Subjects
Empathy -- Social aspects.
Compassion.
Compassion.
Empathy -- Social aspects.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Segal, Elizabeth A., author.
by title:
Social empathy : the...
MARC Display
Social empathy : the art of understanding others / Elizabeth A. Segal.
by
Segal, Elizabeth A., author.
New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
Description:
xii, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
What is empathy? -- Why do we need empathy? -- If it's so important, why is empathy so hard? -- Are power and politics barriers to empathy? -- What if stress, depression, and other physical factors block empathy? -- Where is religion in empathy? -- Can we have empathy with technology? -- Social empathy: making the world a better place -- Epilogue: Teaching social empathy.
Summary:
Our ability to understand others and help others understand us is essential to our individual and collective well-being. Yet there are many barriers that keep us from walking in the shoes of others: fear, skepticism, and power structures that separate us from those outside our narrow groups. To progress in a multicultural world and ensure our common good, we need to overcome these obstacles. Our best hope can be found in the skill of empathy. In Social Empathy, Elizabeth A. Segal explains how we can develop our ability to understand one another and have compassion toward different social groups. When we are socially empathic, we not only imagine what it is like to be another person, but we consider their social, economic, and political circumstances and what shaped them. Segal explains the evolutionary and learned components of interpersonal and social empathy, including neurobiological factors and the role of social structures. Ultimately, empathy is not only a part of interpersonal relations: it is fundamental to interactions between different social groups and can be a way to bridge diverse people and communities. A clear and useful explanation of an often misunderstood concept, Social Empathy brings together sociology, psychology, social work, and cognitive neuroscience to illustrate how to become better advocates for justice.
Genre:
Wellness resources.
Self-help publications.
Self-help publications.
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Copy
Status
Calmar Campus Library
Circulation Stacks (Calmar)
152.4 Seg
2018
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Format:
HTML
Plain text
Delimited
Subject:
Email to:
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9807
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.