bokomslag Neurosociology
Psykologi & pedagogik

Neurosociology

David D Franks

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  • 216 sidor
  • 2014
As a career sociologist I ?rst became interested in neurosociology around 1987 when a graduate student lent me Michael Gazzanigas 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 Descartes 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.
  • Författare: David D Franks
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781489982728
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 216
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2014-09-05
  • Förlag: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.