Neurosociology: The Nexus Between Neuroscience and Social Psychology

by David D. Franks

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441955305
• ISBN13: 9781441955302
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"