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Toward a Biosocial Science

Author : Alexander Riley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000376214
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Toward a Biosocial Science written by Alexander Riley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sociology is in crisis. 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. Wilson, Richard Alexander, Joseph Lopreato, and Richard Machalek. It offers an accessible introduction to rethinking sociological science in consonance with these contemporary biological revolutions. From the standpoint of a biosociology rooted in the single most important scientific theory touching on human life, the Darwinian theory of natural selection, the book sketches an evolutionary social science that would enable us to properly attend to basic questions of human nature, human behavior, and human social organization. Individual chapters take on such topics as: The roots and nature of human sociality; the origins of morality in human social life and an evolutionary perspective on human interests, reciprocity, and altruism; the sex difference in our species and what it contributes to an explanation of sociological facts; the nature of stratification, status, and inequality in human evolutionary history; the question of race in our species; and the contribution evolutionary theory makes to explaining the origins and the importance of culture in human societies.

Biosocial Becomings

Author : Tim Ingold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107434238
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Biosocial Becomings written by Tim Ingold and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All human life unfolds within a matrix of relations, which are at once social and biological. Yet the study of humanity has long been divided between often incompatible 'social' and 'biological' approaches. Reaching beyond the dualisms of nature and society and of biology and culture, this volume proposes a unique and integrated view of anthropology and the life sciences. Featuring contributions from leading anthropologists, it explores human life as a process of 'becoming' rather than 'being', and demonstrates that humanity is neither given in the nature of our species nor acquired through culture but forged in the process of life itself. Combining wide-ranging theoretical argument with in-depth discussion of material from recent or ongoing field research, the chapters demonstrate how contemporary anthropology can move forward in tandem with groundbreaking discoveries in the biological sciences.

Search for Society

Author : Fox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813559810
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (598 download)

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Download or read book Search for Society written by Fox and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Toward a Biocritical Sociology

Author : John William Neuhaus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Toward a Biocritical Sociology written by John William Neuhaus and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Works such as "The Bell Curve" imply that any biosocial approach to social science is necessarily Social Darwinist or reactionary. "Toward a Biocritical Sociology" suggests the opposite: a biosocial sociology stressing species commonalities opens a site for a distinctively critical social science discourse. Neuhaus shows the relevance of current research in ethology, sociobiology, and evolutionary ethics for the development of a critical biosocial sociology. In developing his own -biocritical- approach, Neuhaus argues that debates over social problems, as well as controversies surrounding the communitarian analyses of Robert Bellah, Amitai Etzioni and Alasdair MacIntyre, may be helpfully analyzed and conceptually unpacked by making use of a critical biosocial perspective."

A Bibliography of Biosocial Science

Author : Hiram Caton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780908232086
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book A Bibliography of Biosocial Science written by Hiram Caton and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Biocultural Creatures

Author : Samantha Frost
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822374358
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Biocultural Creatures written by Samantha Frost and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Biocultural Creatures, Samantha Frost brings feminist and political theory together with findings in the life sciences to recuperate the category of the human for politics. Challenging the idea of human exceptionalism as well as other theories of subjectivity that rest on a distinction between biology and culture, Frost proposes that humans are biocultural creatures who quite literally are cultured within the material, social, and symbolic worlds they inhabit. Through discussions about carbon, the functions of cell membranes, the activity of genes and proteins, the work of oxygen, and the passage of time, Frost recasts questions about the nature of matter, identity, and embodiment. In doing so, she elucidates the imbrication of the biological and cultural within the corporeal self. In remapping the relation of humans to their habitats and arriving at the idea that humans are biocultural creatures, Frost provides new theoretical resources for responding to political and environmental crises and for thinking about how to transform the ways we live.

The Handbook of Criminological Theory

Author : Alex R. Piquero
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118512324
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book The Handbook of Criminological Theory written by Alex R. Piquero and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable resource for all levels, this handbook provides up-to-date, in-depth summaries of the most important theories in criminology. Provides original, cutting-edge, and in-depth summaries of the most important theories in criminology Covers the origins and assumptions behind each theory, explores current debates and research, points out knowledge gaps, and offers directions for future research Encompasses theory, research, policy, and practice, with recommendations for further reading at the end of each essay Features discussions of broad issues and topics related to the field, such as the correlates of crime, testing theory, policy, and prediction Clearly and accessibly written by leading scholars in the field as well as up-and-coming scholars

Integrative Approaches in Environmental Health and Exposome Research

Author : Élodie Giroux
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031284321
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Integrative Approaches in Environmental Health and Exposome Research written by Élodie Giroux and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-12 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research on the relationship between health and the environment in a postgenomic context is increasingly aimed at understanding the various exposures as a whole, simultaneously taking into account data pertaining to the biology of organisms and the physical and social environment. Exposome research is a paradigmatic case of this new trend in environmental health studies. This book takes a multidisciplinary approach focusing on the conceptual, epistemological, and sociological reflections in the latest research on environmental and social determinants of health and disease. It offers a combination of theoretical and practical approaches and the authors are scholars from a multidisciplinary background (epidemiology, geography, philosophy of medicine and biology, sociology). Crucially, the book balances the benefit and cost of the integration of biological and social factors when modelling aetiology of disease.

Biosocial Studies and Science

Author : John Henry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780868283241
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Biosocial Studies and Science written by John Henry and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Fair Society

Author : Peter Corning
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226116301
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book The Fair Society written by Peter Corning and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We’ve been told, again and again, that life is unfair. But what if we’re wrong simply to resign ourselves to this situation? What if we have the power—and more, the duty—to change society for the better? We do. And our very nature inclines us to do so. That’s the provocative argument Peter Corning makes in The Fair Society. Drawing on the evidence from our evolutionary history and the emergent science of human nature, Corning shows that we have an innate sense of fairness. While these impulses can easily be subverted by greed and demagoguery, they can also be harnessed for good. Corning brings together the latest findings from the behavioral and biological sciences to help us understand how to move beyond the Madoffs and Enrons in our midst in order to lay the foundation for a new social contract—a Biosocial Contract built on a deep understanding of human nature and a commitment to fairness. He then proposes a sweeping set of economic and political reforms based on three principles of fairness—equality, equity, and reciprocity—that together could transform our society and our world. At this crisis point for capitalism, Corning reveals that the proper response to bank bailouts and financial chicanery isn’t to get mad—it’s to get fair.

Biosocial Anthropology

Author : Robin Fox
Publisher : New York : Wiley
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Biosocial Anthropology written by Robin Fox and published by New York : Wiley. This book was released on 1975 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plants, Health and Healing

Author : Elisabeth Hsu
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857456334
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Plants, Health and Healing written by Elisabeth Hsu and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plants have cultural histories, as their applications change over time and with place. Some plant species have affected human cultures in profound ways, such as the stimulants tea and coffee from the Old World, or coca and quinine from South America. Even though medicinal plants have always attracted considerable attention, there is surprisingly little research on the interface of ethnobotany and medical anthropology. This volume, which brings together (ethno-)botanists, medical anthropologists and a clinician, makes an important contribution towards filling this gap. It emphasises that plant knowledge arises situationally as an intrinsic part of social relationships, that herbs need to be enticed if not seduced by the healers who work with them, that herbal remedies are cultural artefacts, and that bioprospecting and medicinal plant discovery can be viewed as the epitome of a long history of borrowing, stealing and exchanging plants.

Biosocial Criminology

Author : Anthony Walsh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135857792
Total Pages : 515 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Biosocial Criminology written by Anthony Walsh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-11-12 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideal for use, either as a second text in a standard criminology course, or for a discrete course on biosocial perspectives, this book of original chapters breaks new and important ground for ways today's criminologists need to think more broadly about the crime problem.

Issues in Biological, Biochemical, and Evolutionary Sciences Research: 2011 Edition

Author :
Publisher : ScholarlyEditions
ISBN 13 : 1464963711
Total Pages : 2848 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (649 download)

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Download or read book Issues in Biological, Biochemical, and Evolutionary Sciences Research: 2011 Edition written by and published by ScholarlyEditions. This book was released on 2012-01-09 with total page 2848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues in Biological, Biochemical, and Evolutionary Sciences Research: 2011 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ eBook that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Biological, Biochemical, and Evolutionary Sciences Research. The editors have built Issues in Biological, Biochemical, and Evolutionary Sciences Research: 2011 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Biological, Biochemical, and Evolutionary Sciences Research in this eBook to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of Issues in Biological, Biochemical, and Evolutionary Sciences Research: 2011 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.

Menopause

Author : Joan C. Callahan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253115836
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (158 download)

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Download or read book Menopause written by Joan C. Callahan and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1993-09-22 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Menopause: A Midlife Passage, [questions about menopause] are considered in depth from a dazzling variety of angles. This is just the serious feminist discussion of menopause that I have been longing for.... its exquisite analyses renew us in our struggles to make sense of it all." -- Alice Dan, Women's Review of Books "Menopause has become a hot (with or without the flashes) topic in America. That's because a critical mass of us have reached it and are educated, aggressive, and confident enough to want to know what's happening to us, and then to talk about it.... Smart, useful, funny, Menopause: A Midlife Passage is a fine addition to the discussion, a healthy companion for this all-important life passage." -- Susan Stamberg, Special Correspondent, National Public Radio "Editor Callahan takes anything but a trendy approach to a very trendy topic. She's gathered essays by scholarly women who have thought through society's position on menopause and menopausal women and don't like what they see: older women denied positive portrayals in mainstream media, menopause treated by the medical establishment as if it were a disease rather than a natural occurrence, and devaluation of older women. Determined to change people's minds with their words, these women speak both powerfully and empoweringly. A must for feminist and women's health collections." -- Booklist "... a bold attempt to go beyond the standard medical framing of women's experience, and to contest the notion that the menopause is straightforwardly a hormonal 'deficiency disease'." -- New Scientist "... [an] entertaining and informative book that takes a very positive attitude toward the 'midlife passage'." -- Fertility News "This book should be required reading for all women's health care providers and anyone else doing counseling of menopausal women." -- Journal of Women & Aging Essayists from various walks of life present female-defined perspectives on menopause and the passage to new physical, social, and cultural development.

Biology and Criminology

Author : Anthony Walsh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135965943
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Biology and Criminology written by Anthony Walsh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-03-17 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerous criminologists have noted their dissatisfaction with the state of criminology. The need for a new paradigm for the 21st century is clear. However, many distrust biology as a factor in studies of criminal behavior, whether because of limited exposure or because the orientation of criminology in general has a propensity to see it as racist, classist, or at least illiberal. This innovative new book by noted criminologist Anthony Walsh dispels such fears, examining how information from the biological sciences strengthens criminology work and both complements and improves upon traditional theories of criminal behavior. With its reasoned case for biological science as a fundamental tool of the criminologist, Walsh's groundbreaking work will be required reading for all students and faculty within the field of criminology.

The Other Within Us

Author : Marilyn Pearsall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429964609
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Other Within Us written by Marilyn Pearsall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminist women bequeath to us a powerful critique of our society's obsession with beauty and impossible body ideals. Having refused makeup, high heels, and short skirts in their youth, these women are now entering the most stigmatized stage in a woman's life?old age. As she becomes the ?older woman,? the feminist's rejection of beauty standards and her ability to locate self-worth is being challenged.How will feminists respond to the issues raised in this phase of their lives? By confronting the issues unique to older women in our culture and society, these authors redress the neglect and isolation experienced within contemporary feminism and gerontology.Ultimately, the goal of the book is to inspire the aging woman to more easily embrace the ?older other? within her.