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Neurosociology

The Nexus Between Neuroscience and Social Psychology

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Authors:
  1. David D. Franks

    1. Department of Sociology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA

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  • The first book to approach sociology and neuroscience

  • Describes for a sociological audience what neuroscience can add to their research - especially social psychologists

  • David Franks is one of the first sociologists to research and publish on this new field of study

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • David D. Franks
    Pages 1-19

  3. The Evolution of the Human Brain

    • David D. Franks
    Pages 21-37

  4. What Is Social About the Human Brain?

    • David D. Franks
    Pages 39-61

  5. The New Unconscious: Agency and Awareness

    • David D. Franks
    Pages 63-84

  6. Mirror Neurons: A Return to Pragmatism and Implications for an Embodied Intersubjectivity

    • David D. Franks
    Pages 85-104

  7. The Neuroscience of Emotion and Its Relation to Cognition

    • David D. Franks
    Pages 105-128

  8. The Self in Neuroscience and Social Psychology

    • David D. Franks
    Pages 129-156

  9. Consciousness, Quale, and Subjective Experience

    • David D. Franks
    Pages 157-169

  10. The Place of Imitation in Social Life and Its Anatomical Brain Supports

    • David D. Franks
    Pages 171-179

  11. Determinism and Free Will

    • David D. Franks
    Pages 181-202

  12. Conclusion

    • David D. Franks
    Pages 203-210

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 211-216
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About this book

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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“The intent of this book is to break down ‘the walls between sociology and neuroscience to the benefit of both’ … . clearly intended for sociological social psychologists. … How successful was this book in achieving the relevant depth and comprehensiveness of the issue raised above? Very successful in both respects. … this book clearly identifies and explains the pivotal issues in this literature. … the author has done an excellent as well as timely job in drawing out these implications.” (Paul Tibbetts, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 86 (3), September, 2011)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Sociology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA

    David D. Franks

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Neurosociology

  • Book Subtitle: The Nexus Between Neuroscience and Social Psychology

  • Authors: David D. Franks

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5531-9

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-5530-2Published: 09 April 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-8272-8Published: 05 September 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-5531-9Published: 19 April 2010

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 216

  • Topics: Sociology, general, Neurosciences

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