Social Empathy, Elizabeth Segal
Social Empathy, Elizabeth Segal
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Social Empathy
The Art of Understanding Others

Author: Elizabeth Segal

Narrator: Celeste Oliva

Unabridged: 7 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/08/2018


Synopsis

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.

About Elizabeth Segal

Elizabeth Segal is a professor in the School of Social Work at Arizona State University. She is the author of Social Welfare Policy and Social Programs: A Values Perspective and coauthor of Assessing Empathy.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Nathan

This is an incredibly informed and diverse book on the nature and components of empathy, from interpersonal to social. It provides perspectives from psychology, neurophysiology, sociology, history, and the field of social work and its politics. It really has everything, and it is deeply professional......more

This book reads like a text book so if you like reading information from a text book dealing with sociology and Psychology this is a must pick up and read. Elizabeth Segal has years and years of studies and information she pours out to readers. The author has the ability for open discussion with a g......more

Goodreads review by Sam

I think this book a really valuable resource for people attempting to understand social empathy. She explains all of her ideas in a way that was very interesting and engaging for me at least. She also used a lot of examples to help explain some more complicated ideas. I have zero background in socia......more

Goodreads review by Ziv

This book was so insightful and thoughtful and something I would have never picked up normally but I am glad I did. I loved how scientific this book was sitting different studies done on empathy and this book was written by a university professor so she had plenty of experiences to back up what she......more