Toward A Biosocial Science
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Author |
: Alexander Riley |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 260 |
Release |
: 2021-05-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000376210 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000376214 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Toward a Biosocial Science by : Alexander Riley
Sociology is in crisis. While other disciplines have taken on board the revolutionary discoveries driven by evolutionary biology and psychology, genomics and behavioral genetics, and the neurosciences, sociology has ignored these advances and embraced a biophobia that threatens to drive the discipline into marginality. This book takes its place in a rich tradition of efforts to integrate sociological thinking into the world of the biological sciences that can be traced to the origins of the discipline, and that took on modern form beginning a generation ago in the works of thinkers such as E.O. Wilson, Richard Alexander, Joseph Lopreato, and Richard Machalek. It offers an accessible introduction to rethinking sociological science in consonance with these contemporary biological revolutions. From the standpoint of a biosociology rooted in the single most important scientific theory touching on human life, the Darwinian theory of natural selection, the book sketches an evolutionary social science that would enable us to properly attend to basic questions of human nature, human behavior, and human social organization. Individual chapters take on such topics as: The roots and nature of human sociality; the origins of morality in human social life and an evolutionary perspective on human interests, reciprocity, and altruism; the sex difference in our species and what it contributes to an explanation of sociological facts; the nature of stratification, status, and inequality in human evolutionary history; the question of race in our species; and the contribution evolutionary theory makes to explaining the origins and the importance of culture in human societies.
Author |
: Fox |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1989 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0813559812 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780813559810 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Search for Society by : Fox
Author |
: Tim Ingold |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 291 |
Release |
: 2013-06-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107434233 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107434238 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Biosocial Becomings by : Tim Ingold
All human life unfolds within a matrix of relations, which are at once social and biological. Yet the study of humanity has long been divided between often incompatible 'social' and 'biological' approaches. Reaching beyond the dualisms of nature and society and of biology and culture, this volume proposes a unique and integrated view of anthropology and the life sciences. Featuring contributions from leading anthropologists, it explores human life as a process of 'becoming' rather than 'being', and demonstrates that humanity is neither given in the nature of our species nor acquired through culture but forged in the process of life itself. Combining wide-ranging theoretical argument with in-depth discussion of material from recent or ongoing field research, the chapters demonstrate how contemporary anthropology can move forward in tandem with groundbreaking discoveries in the biological sciences.
Author |
: Peter Corning |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 253 |
Release |
: 2011-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226116273 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226116271 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Fair Society by : Peter Corning
We've been told, again and again, that life is unfair. But what if we're wrong simply to resign ourselves to this situation? Drawing on the evidence from our evolutionary history and the emergent science of human nature, this title shows that we have an innate sense of fairness.
Author |
: Michele K. Lewis |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 219 |
Release |
: 2020-07-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781498583541 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1498583547 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Our Biosocial Brains by : Michele K. Lewis
In Our Biosocial Brains, Michele Lewis underscores culture, brain, behavior, and social problems to advocate for a more inclusive cultural neuroscience. Traditional neuroscientists to date have not prioritized studying the impact of power, bias, and injustice on neural processing and the brain’s perception of marginalized humans. Lewis explains current events, historical events, and scientific studies, in Our Biosocial Brains. Readers will be drawn to the relevancy of brain science to examples of injustices and social bias. Lewis also argues that incorporating non-western African-Centered Psychology is vital to diversifying research questions and diversifying interpretations of existing brain science, because African-Centered Psychology is not rooted in racist, classist, and exclusionary hegemonic methods. Lewis argues for attention to marginalized populations, regarding the impact of violence, disrespect, othering, slurs, environmental injustice, health, and general disregard on humans’ brains and behavior. Using hundreds of peer-reviewed studies and original research, the author presents scientific studies that are integrated with sociocultural explanations to foster wider understanding of how our sociocultural world shapes our brains, and how our brains’ responses influence how humans perceive and treat one another.
Author |
: John William Neuhaus |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 232 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015038128925 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Toward a Biocritical Sociology by : John William Neuhaus
Works such as "The Bell Curve" imply that any biosocial approach to social science is necessarily Social Darwinist or reactionary. "Toward a Biocritical Sociology" suggests the opposite: a biosocial sociology stressing species commonalities opens a site for a distinctively critical social science discourse. Neuhaus shows the relevance of current research in ethology, sociobiology, and evolutionary ethics for the development of a critical biosocial sociology. In developing his own -biocritical- approach, Neuhaus argues that debates over social problems, as well as controversies surrounding the communitarian analyses of Robert Bellah, Amitai Etzioni and Alasdair MacIntyre, may be helpfully analyzed and conceptually unpacked by making use of a critical biosocial perspective."
Author |
: Robin Fox |
Publisher |
: New York : Wiley |
Total Pages |
: 194 |
Release |
: 1975 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015003574566 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Biosocial Anthropology by : Robin Fox
Author |
: Thomas C. Wiegele |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 346 |
Release |
: 2019-03-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780429724527 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0429724527 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis Biology And The Social Sciences by : Thomas C. Wiegele
Exciting new developments in behavioral biology are creating an intellectual revolution in the study of human behavior and are causing social scientists to reassess the ways in which they approach their disciplines. This book examines how these new findings are likely to transform and shape anthropology, sociology, economics, and political science in the coming decade. The book begins with an overview of the rapidly changing relationship between biological and social studies. In successive sections, well-known social scientists, biologists, and philosophers address the theoretical challenges involved in incorporating material from sociobiology, ecology, genetics, and psychophysiology into their own disciplines' approaches to the analysis of human behavior. The concluding chapters examine specific methodological problems and related issues.
Author |
: John Henry |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 1982 |
ISBN-10 |
: 086828324X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780868283241 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (4X Downloads) |
Synopsis Biosocial Studies and Science by : John Henry
Author |
: Samantha Frost |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 193 |
Release |
: 2016-05-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780822374350 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0822374358 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Biocultural Creatures by : Samantha Frost
In Biocultural Creatures, Samantha Frost brings feminist and political theory together with findings in the life sciences to recuperate the category of the human for politics. Challenging the idea of human exceptionalism as well as other theories of subjectivity that rest on a distinction between biology and culture, Frost proposes that humans are biocultural creatures who quite literally are cultured within the material, social, and symbolic worlds they inhabit. Through discussions about carbon, the functions of cell membranes, the activity of genes and proteins, the work of oxygen, and the passage of time, Frost recasts questions about the nature of matter, identity, and embodiment. In doing so, she elucidates the imbrication of the biological and cultural within the corporeal self. In remapping the relation of humans to their habitats and arriving at the idea that humans are biocultural creatures, Frost provides new theoretical resources for responding to political and environmental crises and for thinking about how to transform the ways we live.