Neurosociology The Nexus Between Neuroscience and Social Psychology

Name: Neurosociology
Author: David Franks

Auteur: David D. Franks

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: David D. Franks David Franks

Engels
Hardcover
9781441955302
09 april 2010
216 pagina's

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Recently, neuroscientists have presented new research which has a direct impact on many areas of Social Psychology. In this innovative volume, the author explores the nexus of Social Psychology and Neuroscience with relation to:

-The Human "Self"
-The Social Nature of the Mind
-Socialization and Language Acquisition
-Role-Taking/Theory of Mind
-Consciousness
-Intersubjectivity
-Balanced Social Constructionism
-Human Agency
-The Effect of Emotion on Rational Decision-Making

This groundbreaking work integrates areas of George Herbert Mead's social behaviorism with current neuroscience. The chapters in this volume demonstrate how current work on mirror neurons supports the basic tenets of the American pragmatists' focus on the priority of motor behavior.

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.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 09 april 2010
Aantal pagina's: 216
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Hoofdauteur: David D. Franks
Tweede Auteur: David Franks
Hoofduitgeverij: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.

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Editie: 1st ed. 2010
Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 155 mm
Product lengte: 235 mm
Studieboek: Ja
Verpakking breedte: 165 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 23 mm
Verpakking lengte: 242 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 561 g

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EAN: 9781441955302

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