Anankelogy 101: Need Creation [1 of 6]

Welcome to this bold attempt to launch a new social science. One that focuses on studying the experience of needs. Including your specific needs, like no one has ever done before. All the social sciences exist to provide us answers to our many human needs.  Psychology offers answers to understand our minds and behavior.  Sociology seeks to understand groups and our interactions with each other.  Anthropology helps us understand cultures throughout history.  Economics provides clues to understand the trading of goods and services. If these all exist to provide for our needs, why not study the needs themselves? Social science literature can be vague about what all this is for. Individuals and groups are characterized as having motivations, interests, and goals. This course (based on the book "You NEED This") dives deeper than the reductive tendencies of the current social sciences. It goes behind all these motivations, interests, and goals to examine the underlying experience of your needs, and the needs of others. So let’s get specific. Let's begin.