Toward a Biosocial Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Toward a Biosocial Science write by Alexander Riley. This book was released on 2021-05-03. Toward a Biosocial Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Biosocial Becomings
Biosocial Becomings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Biosocial Becomings write by Tim Ingold. This book was released on 2013-06-13. Biosocial Becomings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Biosocial Anthropology
Biosocial Anthropology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Biosocial Anthropology write by Robin Fox. This book was released on 1975. Biosocial Anthropology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Fair Society
The Fair Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Fair Society write by Peter Corning. This book was released on 2011-04. The Fair Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Our Biosocial Brains
Our Biosocial Brains - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Our Biosocial Brains write by Michele K. Lewis. This book was released on 2020-07-07. Our Biosocial Brains available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
