Reviews for The testimony of modern science to the unity of mankind; being a summary of the conclusions ...

The average rating for The testimony of modern science to the unity of mankind; being a summary of the conclusions ... based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-03-23 00:00:00 Reshan Pallie Since it is marketed as an "Introduction to Political Science" it's getting the lowest possible rating. While it is very base level (I read this for a college course but I've read more complex stuff in secondary school, this could just be an Europe-American difference though), it is extremely biased. I say extremely because it doesn't acknowledge its own bias at all. If it was upfront about being right-of-center (American standards) I probably wouldn't be as harsh. But Shively continuously writes as if he is being objective while being subjective. I was going in prepared that this was America and the politics would be more right leaning and conservative than home, but I was still shocked. If I hadn't had social sciences from home I'm not sure I would have spotted all the biases, since a lot of it is subtle (just like effective propaganda...), and bordering on it being wrong information or a misleading lack of information on some schools of thought, theories, ideologies, and real world examples. There was also a number of cases where I'm not sure if he was trying to give the student confidence by 'solving' a political issue or if he genuinely didn't know the answers (asking open-ended questions like 'we can't be sure why x happened', yet having just said the years these changes began and if you google or have basic history knowledge you will recognise them as Years Where America Fucked Up or Years Of Social Change or something like that). All in all I would not recommend for an introduction of political science, but maybe if you want to look at American Conservative rhetoric and right-wing for a project and want to see how this is often self-described as 'evident' and 'rational' and 'objective' despite being ideological. It could also be interesting to compare to philosophical debates - here I'm specifically thinking the debate on the existence of universal truths and the frequent criticisms this idea has of being imperialistic, Eurocentric, assumes male superiority and binary gender, heteronormativity, racial superiority, etc and how these things are often argued to be as rational and self-evident.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-01-27 00:00:00 Ray Hansen Its great.