Brooks,David

SOCIAL ANIMAL : THE HIDDEN SOURCES OF LOVE, CHARACTER, AND ACHIEVEMENT - 1 - New York Random House 2011/01/01 - 424

Brooks effectively interweaves history, science, statistics and instinctual behavioral patterns into a fictional treatment that reiterates his belief in "the way unconscious affections and aversions shape daily life. He employs a novelistic narrative device in his intricate analysis of two upwardly mobile, likeminded individuals. The fictional couple's initial meeting spurs the author to personify the dynamics of

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Social Mobility
Man-woman relationships
Social status
Character
United States
Elite (Social sciences)
Success
Personality development

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