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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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Handbook of neurosociology

edited byDavid D. FranksJonathan H. Turner

Abstract

Until recently, a handbook on neurosociology would have been viewed with skepticism by sociologists, who have long been protective of their disciplinary domain against perceived encroachment by biology. But a number of developments in the last decade or so have made sociologists more receptive to biological factors in sociology and social psychology. Much of this has been encouraged by the editors of this volume, David Franks and Jonathan Turner. This new interest has been increased by the explosion of research in neuroscience on brain functioning and brain-environment interaction (via new MRI technologies), with implications for social and psychological functioning. This handbook emphasizes the integration of perspectives within sociology as well as between fields in social neuroscience. For example, Franks represents a social constructionist position following from G.H. Mead’s voluntaristic theory of the act while Turner is more social structural and positivistic. Furthermore, this handbook not only contains contributions from sociologists, but leading figures from the psychological perspective of social neuroscience.

Details | Table of Contents

The emergent self

how distributed neural networks support self-representation

Istvan Molnar-SzakacsLucina Q. Uddin

pp.167-182

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4473-8_13
Attachment, interaction, and synchronization

how innate mechanisms in attachment give rise to emergent structure in networks and communities

Thomas S Smith

pp.243-254

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4473-8_17

Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Dordrecht

Year: 2013

Pages: 406

Series: Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4473-8

ISBN (hardback): 978-94-007-4472-1

ISBN (digital): 978-94-007-4473-8

Full citation:

Franks David D., Turner Jonathan H. (2013) Handbook of neurosociology. Dordrecht, Springer.