Toward A Biosocial Science

Author : Alexander Riley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000376210

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Toward a Biosocial Science by Alexander Riley Pdf

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 : Tim Ingold,Gisli Palsson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781107434233

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Biosocial Becomings by Tim Ingold,Gisli Palsson Pdf

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 : Robin Fox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0813514649

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The Search for Society by Robin Fox Pdf

Author : John William Neuhaus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015038128925

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Toward a Biocritical Sociology by John William Neuhaus Pdf

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 : Élodie Giroux,Francesca Merlin,Yohan Fayet
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031284328

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Integrative Approaches in Environmental Health and Exposome Research by Élodie Giroux,Francesca Merlin,Yohan Fayet Pdf

Research on the relationship between health and the environment in a postgenomic context is increasingly aimed at understanding the various exposures as a whole, simultaneously taking into account data pertaining to the biology of organisms and the physical and social environment. Exposome research is a paradigmatic case of this new trend in environmental health studies. This book takes a multidisciplinary approach focusing on the conceptual, epistemological, and sociological reflections in the latest research on environmental and social determinants of health and disease. It offers a combination of theoretical and practical approaches and the authors are scholars from a multidisciplinary background (epidemiology, geography, philosophy of medicine and biology, sociology). Crucially, the book balances the benefit and cost of the integration of biological and social factors when modelling aetiology of disease.

Author : Thomas C. Wiegele
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429724527

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Biology And The Social Sciences by Thomas C. Wiegele Pdf

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 : Hans J. Eysenck,G.D. Wilson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789401159050

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A Textbook of Human Psychology by Hans J. Eysenck,G.D. Wilson Pdf

There are so many good textbooks in the field of this sense the book is more comparable to modern human psychology that anyone producing a new one textbooks of 'harder' sciences such as physics and must have a good excuse, ready to explain his physiology. Theories are considered important, but temerity. Our reason for bringing together the various only theories that are scientific in the sense that they authors who have contributed the chapters of this continuously interact with empirically derived facts. book is a very simple one. Most textbooks are written Theories which seldom make contact with facts (e. g. just for future professional psychologists, i. e. for Jung's theory of archetypes) are generally ignored. students who are going to adopt psychology as their There is one other point about which we would like to be explicit. Textbooks often state different theories life's work, and whose main area of concentration is psychology. These students are, of course, a very im regarding a particular phenomenon, or set of phenom portant group, yet psychology is becoming more and ena, without giving any opinion as to which of these more important to professionals in other fields as well theories might be judged superior to the others.

Author : Hiram Caton,Frank K. Salter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biology
ISBN : 090823208X

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A Bibliography of Biosocial Science by Hiram Caton,Frank K. Salter Pdf

Author : John Henry,Ian Morris Robottom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Science
ISBN : 086828324X

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Biosocial Studies and Science by John Henry,Ian Morris Robottom Pdf

Author : Joan C. Callahan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1993-09-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0253115833

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Menopause by Joan C. Callahan Pdf

"In Menopause: A Midlife Passage, [questions about menopause] are considered in depth from a dazzling variety of angles. This is just the serious feminist discussion of menopause that I have been longing for.... its exquisite analyses renew us in our struggles to make sense of it all." -- Alice Dan, Women's Review of Books "Menopause has become a hot (with or without the flashes) topic in America. That's because a critical mass of us have reached it and are educated, aggressive, and confident enough to want to know what's happening to us, and then to talk about it.... Smart, useful, funny, Menopause: A Midlife Passage is a fine addition to the discussion, a healthy companion for this all-important life passage." -- Susan Stamberg, Special Correspondent, National Public Radio "Editor Callahan takes anything but a trendy approach to a very trendy topic. She's gathered essays by scholarly women who have thought through society's position on menopause and menopausal women and don't like what they see: older women denied positive portrayals in mainstream media, menopause treated by the medical establishment as if it were a disease rather than a natural occurrence, and devaluation of older women. Determined to change people's minds with their words, these women speak both powerfully and empoweringly. A must for feminist and women's health collections." -- Booklist "... a bold attempt to go beyond the standard medical framing of women's experience, and to contest the notion that the menopause is straightforwardly a hormonal 'deficiency disease'." -- New Scientist "... [an] entertaining and informative book that takes a very positive attitude toward the 'midlife passage'." -- Fertility News "This book should be required reading for all women's health care providers and anyone else doing counseling of menopausal women." -- Journal of Women & Aging Essayists from various walks of life present female-defined perspectives on menopause and the passage to new physical, social, and cultural development.

Author : Marilyn Pearsall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429964602

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The Other Within Us by Marilyn Pearsall Pdf

Feminist women bequeath to us a powerful critique of our society's obsession with beauty and impossible body ideals. Having refused makeup, high heels, and short skirts in their youth, these women are now entering the most stigmatized stage in a woman's life?old age. As she becomes the ?older woman,? the feminist's rejection of beauty standards and her ability to locate self-worth is being challenged.How will feminists respond to the issues raised in this phase of their lives? By confronting the issues unique to older women in our culture and society, these authors redress the neglect and isolation experienced within contemporary feminism and gerontology.Ultimately, the goal of the book is to inspire the aging woman to more easily embrace the ?older other? within her.

Author : Robin Fox,Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth
Publisher : New York : Wiley
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015003574566

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Biosocial Anthropology by Robin Fox,Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : ScholarlyEditions
Page : 2848 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781464963711

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Issues in Biological, Biochemical, and Evolutionary Sciences Research: 2011 Edition by Anonim Pdf

Issues in Biological, Biochemical, and Evolutionary Sciences Research: 2011 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ eBook that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Biological, Biochemical, and Evolutionary Sciences Research. The editors have built Issues in Biological, Biochemical, and Evolutionary Sciences Research: 2011 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Biological, Biochemical, and Evolutionary Sciences Research in this eBook to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of Issues in Biological, Biochemical, and Evolutionary Sciences Research: 2011 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.

Author : Benson Ginsburg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781468452754

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Premenstrual Syndrome by Benson Ginsburg Pdf

As the work on a revised edition of the Diagnostic and StatisticaL ManuaL (OSM-llIR) progressed, a great controversy grew over the inclusion of a new diagnostic category, "Premenstrual Phase Dysphoric Disorder." Some nosologists and scientists who study premenstrual syndrome (PMS) felt that, while a specific psychiatric disorder does exist, it occurs relatively rarely. The disorder can be characterized by recurrent periods of dysphoria on a monthly basis, in synchrony with the menstrual period. "PMS" already exists as a diagnosis in leD 9, the international medical nomenclature. The category for DSM-IIIR was to be a specific psychiatric disorder concentrating on the dysphoric reaction, and not including all of the physical and mental symptoms that people have ascribed to this condition. Much of the controversy that ensued had little to do with the diagnostic category or the condition itself. Rather, it concerned feelings voiced by feminist groups that the new diagnostic category would be misleading, that it would inappropriately label women as mentally ill, and that it would be affixed not only to the dysphoric disorder, but everything else that happens psychiatrically to women.

Author : Natalie Sappleton
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781787543621

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Voluntary and Involuntary Childlessness by Natalie Sappleton Pdf

While interest in the drivers, consequences, nature and manifestations of voluntary and involuntary childlessness increases, knowledge progress is hampered by poor linkages across disjointed research fields. The book brings together theoretical insights and empirical investigations into the phenomenon, united within a feminist conceptual framework.