TY - GEN digital ID - 131521336 TI - Handbook of Neurosociology AU - Franks, David D. AU - Turner, Jonathan H. PY - 2013 SN - 9789400744738 PB - Dordrecht Springer Netherlands DB - UniCat KW - Psychology KW - Social sciences (general) KW - Sociology KW - Psychiatry KW - Neuropathology KW - MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) KW - medische psychologie KW - sociologie KW - sociale wetenschappen KW - hersenen KW - neuropsychologie UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131521336 AB - Until recently, a handbook on neurosociology would have been viewed with skepticism by sociologists, who have long been protective of their disciplinary domain against perceived encroachment by biology. But a number of developments in the last decade or so have made sociologists more receptive to biological factors in sociology and social psychology. Much of this has been encouraged by the editors of this volume, David Franks and Jonathan Turner. This new interest has been increased by the explosion of research in neuroscience on brain functioning and brain-environment interaction (via new MRI technologies), with implications for social and psychological functioning. This handbook emphasizes the integration of perspectives within sociology as well as between fields in social neuroscience. For example, Franks represents a social constructionist position following from G.H. Mead’s voluntaristic theory of the act while Turner is more social structural and positivistic. Furthermore, this handbook not only contains contributions from sociologists, but leading figures from the psychological perspective of social neuroscience. ER -