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Neurosociology: Fundamentals and Current Findings

Part of the SpringerBriefs in Sociology Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-024-1600-8

ISBN: 978-94-024-1598-8

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Feb 7, 2019

1 - 10 of 11 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction

Franks, David D.

Pages: 1 –17

[Data are presented about the recent growth of neuroscience. Next, I describe why and how the book is addressed to different readers. Reservations that some sociologists have about neuroscience are reviewed and shown to be unfounded. The differences of the halves of the brain separated by the...
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Chapter 2The Evolution of the Human Brain

Franks, David D.

Pages: 19 –29

[This chapter begins with the fossil dating of Australopithecus and our earliest ancestors who walked upright and began our ancestral line. Areas they populated are named. Fossil findings revealing brain sizes are identified. The dangers of life at that time are described and the shortness of...
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Chapter 3What Is Social About the Human Brain

Franks, David D.

Pages: 31 –49

[What brains allow us to do socially is discussed. Early studies by Rene Spitz are described. These studies demonstrate what happens to infants who lack a working social environment. The psychological costs of such an environment to the infants (fear, depression, and lack of physical heath) are...
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Chapter 4Knower and the Known

Franks, David D.

Pages: 51 –59

[The purpose of this chapter is discussed and different epistemologies are identified. The nature of the human brain is noted. What emotions do for the brain per se is discussed. The new social behaviorism is described as an epistemology. The dangers of either/or thinking as well as dualism are...
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Chapter 5Consciousness, Qualia, and Subjective Experience

Franks, David D.

Pages: 61 –64

[Quale is defined, and examples of qualia are given. Their relation to conscious and the “intentionality” thereof is explained. The philosophical context in which qualia are embedded is reviewed, and since qualia are so subjective, their relationship to sociology and its basic unit of analysis is...
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Chapter 6The Post-Freudian Unconscious: Agency and Awareness

Franks, David D.

Pages: 65 –82

[Dissatisfactions with Freudian notions of the unconscious are stressed, and two topics follow: a history of original meanings of the unconscious and viewing the unconscious as a process plus the consequences of this. Comments on the subject by the neurologist Gazzaniga are presented. Striking...
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Chapter 7Mirror Neurons, a Return to Pragmatism and Implications for an Embodied Intersubjectivity

Franks, David D.

Pages: 83 –100

[The early discovery of mirror neurons is traced from about 1991 when Rizzolatti and Sinigalia discovered them. The simulation of the behavior of others on the brain’s motor cortex is discussed as are other areas holding mirror neurons. How this can be related to language is briefly addressed, as...
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Chapter 8Sex Differences in the Human Brain

Franks, David D.

Pages: 101 –105

[The chapter starts with how ideology enters into studies of sex differences. Next, Stuart Richie claims that he has completed the largest study of sex differences to date. His findings come next. The fact that male brains are larger and how this is irrelevant follows with a statement of what...
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Chapter 9Imitation in Social Life and Its Brain Supports

Franks, David D.

Pages: 107 –111

[The chapter begins by noting our own cultural bias against imitation. Reasons why we imitate are discussed. The concept of social pattern building is presented and examples of imitation as unconscious are given. Creative aspects of imitation are stressed, and imitation is seen as a social glue...
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Chapter 10Determinism and Agency

Franks, David D.

Pages: 113 –123

[This chapter starts by contrasting reductionism and determinism with emergence and mind. How agency allows for the self-control of behavior making social life possible is noted. Conditioning is presented next and accounts for a great deal of human behavior. How we surmount it and make new forms...

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