|
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions
|
Buy Now
Neurosociology - The Nexus Between Neuroscience and Social Psychology (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2010)
Loot Price: R3,042
Discovery Miles 30 420
|
|
|
Neurosociology - The Nexus Between Neuroscience and Social Psychology (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2010)
Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days
|
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.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
(3)
(1)
