Neurosociology, 2010 The Nexus Between Neuroscience and Social Psychology
Langue : Anglais
Auteur : Franks David D.
As a career sociologist I ?rst became interested in neurosociology around 1987 when a graduate student lent me Michael Gazzaniga?s The Social Brain. Ifthe biological human brain was really social, I thought sociologists and their students should be the ?rst, not the last, to know. As I read on I found little of the clumsy reductionism of the earlier biosociologists whom I had learned to see as the arch- emy of our ?eld. Clearly, reductionism does exist among many neuroscientists. But I also found some things that were very social and quite relevant for sociology. After reading Descarte?s Error by Antonio Damasio, I learned how some types of emotion were necessary for rational thought ? a very radical innovation for the long-honored ?objective rationalist. ? I started inserting some things about split-brain research into my classes, mispronouncing terms like amygdala and being corrected by my s- dents. That instruction helped me realize how much we professors needed to catch up with our students. I also wrote a review of Leslie Brothers? Fridays Footprint: How Society Shapes the Human Mind. I thought if she could write so well about social processes maybe I could attempt to do something similar in connection with my ?eld. For several years I found her an e-mail partner with a wonderful sense of humor. She even retrieved copies of her book for the use of my graduate students when I had assigned it for a seminar.
The Evolution of the Human Brain.- What Is Social About the Human Brain?.- The New Unconscious: Agency and Awareness.- Mirror Neurons: A Return to Pragmatism and Implications for an Embodied Intersubjectivity.- The Neuroscience of Emotion and Its Relation to Cognition.- The Self in Neuroscience and Social Psychology.- Consciousness, Quale, and Subjective Experience.- The Place of Imitation in Social Life and Its Anatomical Brain Supports.- Determinism and Free Will.- Conclusion.
The first book to approach sociology and neuroscience Describes for a sociological audience what neuroscience can add to their research - especially social psychologists David Franks is one of the first sociologists to research and publish on this new field of study Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Date de parution : 09-2014
Ouvrage de 216 p.
15.5x23.5 cm
Date de parution : 04-2010
Ouvrage de 216 p.
15.5x23.5 cm
Thèmes de Neurosociology :
Mots-clés :
Consciousness; Emotions; Language Acquisition; Memory; Social Constructions; Socialization; behavior; neurons; neuroscience
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