Toward a Biosocial Science
Toward a Biosocial Science Sociology is in crisis. Wilson, Richard Alexander, Joseph Lopreato, and Richard Machalek. While other disciplines have taken on board the revolutionary discoveries driven…
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Toward a Biosocial Science
Sociology is in crisis. Wilson, Richard Alexander, Joseph Lopreato, and Richard Machalek. 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.
From the standpoint of a biosociology rooted in the single most important scientific It offers an accessible introduction to rethinking sociological science in consonance with these contemporary biological revolutions.