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Handbook of Neurosociology

Author : David D. Franks
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400744730
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Neurosociology written by David D. Franks and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-07-09 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 coeditors 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.

Handbook of Sociological Science

Author : Gërxhani, Klarita
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789909430
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (899 download)

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Book Synopsis Handbook of Sociological Science by : Gërxhani, Klarita

Download or read book Handbook of Sociological Science written by Gërxhani, Klarita and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-10 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 22 out of the 26 Chapters will be available Open Access on Elgaronline when the book is published. The Handbook of Sociological Science offers a refreshing, integrated perspective on research programs and ongoing developments in sociological science. It highlights key shared theoretical and methodological features, thereby contributing to progress and cumulative growth of sociological knowledge.

Empathy

Author : Vincenzo Auriemma
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031388607
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book Empathy written by Vincenzo Auriemma and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-27 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the concept of empathy in sociological and neuroscientific discourses using innovative perspectives from sociology and social neuroscience. Through a transdisciplinary approach, the author delves into the history of empathy and its social, cultural and semantic changes, and then reviews the conception of empathy in neuroscientific discourse. Distancing itself from the traditional neuroscientific literature of biological universalism, this volume offers an innovative perspective on empathy. It also opens a new avenue for neurosociology, which is presented as the discipline that can emphasize all the cultural and emotional aspects that govern empathy. Key themes addressed in the text are: empathy in all its meanings, from Hume to TenHouten; neurosociology as one possible avenue for embracing the cultural and neuroscientific aspects of empathy; and empirical research. A valuable resource for sociology students and academics in the field of empathy and neurosociology, this book is also of interest to those studying sociological thought, and social neuroscience.

The Cognitive Foundations of Classical Sociological Theory

Author : Ryan McVeigh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003802699
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Cognitive Foundations of Classical Sociological Theory written by Ryan McVeigh and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cognitive Foundations of Classical Sociological Theory explores the role that understandings of mind and brain played in the development of sociological theory. It isolates five key authors in the classical tradition and comprehensively explores their oeuvres for moments where they reflect on, engage with, and build from topics related to cognition, placing their work in contact with research today to critically determine areas of relevance, refutation, or revision. Showing how understandings of mind, brain, and body grounded the production of early sociological thought, the book draws attention to the foundational role theories of cognition played in the emergence of sociology as a distinct field of study. With chapters on Comte, Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and Mead, The Cognitive Foundations of Classical Sociological Theory constitutes a novel and timely engagement with canonical social theory, extending its application to contemporary social life. It will therefore appeal to scholars of sociology and psychology with interests in classical social theory, cognition, embodiment, and sociality.

Identity and Symbolic Interaction

Author : Richard T. Serpe
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030412318
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Identity and Symbolic Interaction written by Richard T. Serpe and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines identity theory’s centrality within social psychology and its foundations within structural symbolic interaction, highlighting its links not only to other prominent sociological subfields, but also to other theoretical perspectives within and beyond sociology. The book provides a synthetic overview outlining the intellectual lineage of identity theory within structural symbolic interactionism, and how the “Indiana School” of identity theory and research, associated especially with Sheldon Stryker, relates to other symbolic interactionist traditions within sociology. It also analyses the latest developments in response to the push to integrate identity theory, which initially focused on role identities, with the study of personal, group and social identities. Further, it discusses the relationship between identity theory and affect control theory, providing a sense of the many substantive topics within sociology beyond social psychology for which the study of identity has important, sometimes underappreciated implications. The book concludes with a chapter summarizing the interrelated lessons learned while also reflecting on remaining key questions and challenges for the future development of identity theory.

Advances in Group Processes

Author : Edward J. Lawler
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800432321
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Advances in Group Processes written by Edward J. Lawler and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 37 brings together papers related to a variety of topics in small groups and organizational research. The volume includes papers that address theoretical and empirical issues related to consumer social privilege, group processes and disrupted environments, the use of time as a construct and the affective bases of self.

Neuromatic

Author : John Lardas Modern
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022679959X
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Neuromatic written by John Lardas Modern and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Modern offers a powerful and original critique of neurology’s pivotal role in religious history. In Neuromatic, religious studies scholar John Lardas Modern offers a sprawling examination of the history of the cognitive revolution and current attempts to locate all that is human in the brain, including spirituality itself. Neuromatic is a wildly original take on the entangled histories of science and religion that lie behind our brain-laden present: from eighteenth-century revivals to the origins of neurology and mystic visions of mental piety in the nineteenth century; from cyberneticians, Scientologists, and parapsychologists in the twentieth century to contemporary claims to have discovered the neural correlates of religion. What Modern reveals via this grand tour is that our ostensibly secular turn to the brain is bound up at every turn with the religion it discounts, ignores, or actively dismisses. In foregrounding the myths, ritual schemes, and cosmic concerns that have accompanied idealizations of neural networks and inquiries into their structure, Neuromatic takes the reader on a dazzling and disturbing ride through the history of our strange subservience to the brain.

New Directions in Identity Theory and Research

Author : Jan E. Stets
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190457546
Total Pages : 713 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book New Directions in Identity Theory and Research written by Jan E. Stets and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past four decades - and most especially in recent years as issues of identity continue to play out across the public stage - identity theory has developed into one of the most fascinating and active research programs within the spheres of sociological social psychology. Having emerged out of a landmark 2014 national conference that sought to integrate various research programs and to honor the groundbreaking work of Dr. Peter J. Burke, New Directions in Identity Theory and Research brings together the pioneers, scholars, and researchers of identity theory as they present the important theoretical, methodological, and substantive work in identity theory today. Edited by Dr. Jan E. Stets and Dr. Richard T. Serpe, this volume asserts that researchers and scholars can no longer rely on using samples, measures, concepts, and mechanisms that limit the overall advancement of identity theory and research. Instead, as Stets and Serpe contend in their introductory chapter, "Researchers constantly must try out new ideas, test the ideas with more refined measures, use samples that are representative yet racially and ethnically diverse, and employ methods (perhaps mixed methods) that capture the different dimensions of the identity process." This book is the truest testament to this idea. In New Directions in Identity Theory and Research, Stets, Serpe, and contributing authors urge readers to think outside the box by providing the road map necessary to guide future work and thought in this emerging field.

Digital Transformation of Identity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Author : Kazuhiko Shibuya
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811522480
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Digital Transformation of Identity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence written by Kazuhiko Shibuya and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the digital transformation of identity in the age of artificial intelligence. It articulates the nature of identity of human beings, based on cutting-edge knowledge in the field of AI and big-data sciences, and discusses identity by drawing on comprehensive investigations in digital social sciences and exploring wider disciplines related to philosophy, ethics, sociology, STS, computer sciences, engineering, and medical sciences. Reviewing contemporary conditions proliferated by advanced technological trends and unveiling social mechanisms of human identity, this book appeals to undergraduate and graduate students as well as academic researchers.

Evolution, Cognition, and the History of Religion: A New Synthesis

Author : Anders Klostergaard Petersen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004385371
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Evolution, Cognition, and the History of Religion: A New Synthesis written by Anders Klostergaard Petersen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evolution, Cognition, and the History of Religion: A New Synthesis comprises 41 chapters that push for a new way of conducting the study of religion, thereby, transforming the discipline into a genuine science of religion. The recent resurgence of evolutionary approaches on culture and the increasing acknowledgement in the natural and social sciences of culture’s and religion’s evolutionary importance calls for a novel epistemological and theoretical framework for studying these two areas. The chapters explore how a new scholarly synthesis, founded on the triadic space constituted by evolution, cognition, cultural and ecological environment, may develop. Different perspectives and themes relating to this overarching topic are taken up with a main focus on either evolution, cognition, and/or the history of religion.

Conceptual Metonymy

Author : Olga Blanco-Carrión
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027264384
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Conceptual Metonymy by : Olga Blanco-Carrión

Download or read book Conceptual Metonymy written by Olga Blanco-Carrión and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume addresses a number of closely connected methodological, descriptive, and theoretical issues in the study of metonymy, and includes a series of case studies broadening our knowledge of the functioning of metonymy. As regards the methodological and descriptive issues, the book exhibits a unique feature in metonymy literature: the discussion of the structure of a detailed, web-based metonymy database (especially its entry model), and the descriptive criteria to be applied in its completion. The theoretical discussion contributes important challenging insights on several metonymy-related topics such as contingency, source prominence, “complex target”, source-target contrast / asymmetry, conceptual integration, hierarchies, triggers, de-personalization and de-roling, and many others. The case studies deal with the role of metonymy in morphology, monoclausal if only constructions, emotional categories, and iconicity in English and other languages, including one sign language. Beside cognitive linguists, especially metonymy researchers, the book should appeal to researchers in A.I., sign language, rhetoric, lexicography, and communication.

Theoretical Sociology

Author : Seth Abrutyn
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000331423
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Theoretical Sociology written by Seth Abrutyn and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Durkheim’s influential work a century ago, sociological theory has been among the most integrative and useful tools for social scientists across many disciplines. Sociological theory has nevertheless, due to its usefulness, expanded so very broadly that some wonder whether the concept of "general theory," or even the attempt to link middle-range theories, is still of any use. This book, a collection of top theorists reflecting on the present and future of the craft, addresses this most important question. Taking their lead from Jonathan Turner’s important recent work, and drawing on their own broad experience, Seth Abrutyn and Kevin McCaffree have organized the chapters in this book from the general, integrative and review-focused bookend chapters to more specific chapters on innovations in theory construction at the micro, meso and macro levels. Moreover, the book’s microsociological content on interpersonal violence, solidarity, identity and emotion coheres with chapters in mesosociological dynamics on class, education and networks, which in turn integrate with the chapters on inequality, justice, morality and cultural evolution found in the section on macrosociology. The distinguished contributors share a distinct commitment to the development, innovation and relevance of general sociological theory. This volume is an invaluable sourcebook for advanced students and social science faculty interested in understanding how sociological theory’s past and present are informing its future.

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Emotion

Author : Sonya Pritzker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000740838
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Language and Emotion written by Sonya Pritzker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Language and Emotion offers a variety of critical theoretical and methodological perspectives that interrogate the ways in which ideas about and experiences of emotion are shaped by linguistic encounters, and vice versa. Taking an interdisciplinary approach which incorporates disciplines such as linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, psychology, communication studies, education, sociology, folklore, religious studies, and literature, this book: explores and illustrates the relationship between language and emotion in the five key areas of language socialisation; culture, translation and transformation; poetry, pragmatics and power; the affective body-self; and emotion communities; situates our present-day thinking about language and emotion by providing a historical and cultural overview of distinctions and moral values that have traditionally dominated Western thought relating to emotions and their management; provides a unique insight into the multiple ways in which language incites emotion, and vice versa, especially in the context of culture. With contributions from an international range of leading and emerging scholars in their fields, The Routledge Handbook of Language and Emotion is an indispensable resource for students and researchers who are interested in incorporating interdisciplinary perspectives on language and emotion into their work.

Interpersonal Communication

Author : Richard West
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1544336659
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Interpersonal Communication written by Richard West and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2019-01-02 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now published by SAGE! Interpersonal Communication, Fourth Edition empowers students to become more confident communicators by providing them with both the knowledge and the practical skills they need to make effective communication choices in today′s rapidly changing and technologically advanced society. Rather than "telling" students how to communicate, authors Richard L. West and Lynn H. Turner offer a toolbox of key skills so students can actively choose and experiment with strategies appropriate for a given situation. Filled with realistic examples and scenarios that reflect the diversity and interactions of today′s students, this practical text makes clear connections among theory, skills, and the life situations we all encounter on a daily basis. A Complete Teaching & Learning Package SAGE Premium Video Included in the interactive eBook! SAGE Premium Video tools and resources boost comprehension and bolster analysis. Interactive eBook Includes access to SAGE Premium Video, multimedia tools, and much more! Save when you bundle the interactive eBook with the new edition. Order using bundle ISBN: 9781544365657. SAGE coursepacks FREE! Easily import our quality instructor and student resource content into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. SAGE edge FREE online resources for students that make learning easier.

Market Affect and the Rhetoric of Political Economic Debates

Author : Catherine Chaput
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611179955
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Market Affect and the Rhetoric of Political Economic Debates written by Catherine Chaput and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2019-08-14 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What explains the "triumph of capitalism"? Why do people so often respond positively to discussions favoring it while shutting down arguments against it? Overwhelmingly theories regarding capitalism's resilience have focused on individual choice bolstered by careful rhetorical argumentation. In this penetrating study, however, Catherine Chaput shows that something more than choice is at work in capitalism's ability to thrive in public practice and imagination—more even than material resources (power) and cultural imperialism (ideology). That "something," she contends, is market affect. Affect, says Chaput, signifies a semi-autonomous entity circulating through individuals and groups. Physiological in nature but moving across cultural, material, and environmental boundaries, affect has three functions: it opens or closes individual receptivity; it pulls or pushes individual identification; and it raises or lowers individual energies. This novel approach begins by connecting affect to rhetorical theory and offers a method for tracking its three modalities in relation to economic markets. Each of the following chapters compares a major theorist of capitalism with one of his important critics, beginning with the juxtaposition of Adam Smith and Karl Marx, who set the agenda not only for arguments endorsing and critiquing capitalism but also for the affective energies associated with these positions. Subsequent chapters restage this initial debate through pairs of economic theorists—John Maynard Keynes and Thorstein Veblen, Friedrich Hayek and Theodor Adorno, and Milton Friedman and John Kenneth Galbraith—who represent key historical moments. In each case, Chaput demonstrates, capitalism's critics have fallen short in their rhetorical effectiveness. Chaput concludes by exploring possibilities for escaping the straitjacket imposed by these debates. In particular she points to the biopolitical lectures of Michel Foucault as offering a framework for more persuasive anticapitalist critiques by reconstituting people's conscious understandings as well as their natural instincts.

Embodied Conflict

Author : Tim Hicks
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351616730
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Embodied Conflict written by Tim Hicks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our abilities to learn and remember are at the core of consciousness, cognition, and identity, and are based on the fundamental brain capacity to encode and store perceptual experience in abiding neural structures. These neural structures are the mechanisms by which we know, think about, create beliefs about, and understand the world in which we live. This includes the social world in which we experience conflict with others; our conflicts are largely about differences in what we know, think, believe, and understand. A number of characteristics of the neural encoding function are at the root of and help to explain conflict in our social relations and why some conflicts are difficult to prevent and resolve. Embodied Conflict presents the neural encoding function in layman’s terms, outlining seven key characteristics and exploring their implications for communication, relationship, and conflict resolution. In doing so, Embodied Conflict situates the field of conflict resolution within the long arc of human history and asks whether and how conflict resolution practice can take another step forward by considering the neural experience of parties in conflict. The book includes many case examples and offers some suggestions for how conflict resolution practitioner training might be expanded to include this theoretical framework and its implications for practice.

The Social Sciences in the Looking Glass

Author : Didier Fassin
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478024097
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Social Sciences in the Looking Glass written by Didier Fassin and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-20 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, social scientists have turned their critical lens on the historical roots and contours of their disciplines, including their politics and practices, epistemologies and methods, institutionalization and professionalization, national development and colonial expansion, globalization and local contestations, and public presence and role in society. The Social Sciences in the Looking Glass offers current social scientific perspectives on this reflexive moment. Examining sociology, anthropology, philosophy, political science, legal theory, and religious studies, the volume’s contributors outline the present transformations of the social sciences, explore their connections with critical humanities, analyze the challenges of alternate paradigms, and interrogate recent endeavors to move beyond the human. Throughout, the authors, who belong to half a dozen disciplines, trace how the social sciences are thoroughly entangled in the social facts they analyze and are key to helping us understand the conditions of our world. Contributors. Chitralekha, Jean-Louis Fabiani, Didier Fassin, Johan Heilbron, Miriam Kingsberg Kadia, Kristoffer Kropp, Nicolas Langlitz, John Lardas Modern, Álvaro Morcillo Laiz, Amín Pérez, Carel Smith, George Steinmetz, Peter D. Thomas, Bregje van Eekelen, Agata Zysiak