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This new edition of the very successful handbook documents the incredible theoretical, empirical, and methodological progress within neurosociology since its previous publication in 2013. Led by the next generation of leading neurosociologists Will Kalkhoff, Rengin Firat, and Joseph Dippong, it adds nearly two dozen new chapters. The handbook adds to the critical contribution of the first edition in certifying the unique role of neurosociology and highlighting emerging contributions within the larger sphere of interdisciplinary work combining neural and social perspectives. The chapters in this edition overview cutting-edge methodologies and advance neurosociological perspectives on a broad range of foundational and substantive topics, from the neural underpinnings of identity and interaction to neurosociological models of racial and other enduring inequalities.
An impressive collection of established and emerging scholars has contributed to this edition, which provides an up-to-date and accessible overview of the field for researchers, students, practitioners, and policymakers alike.
List of contents
The Rise of Neurosociology.- We Need Neurosociology as Well as Social Neuroscience.- A Critique of Evolutionary Psychology.- Mechanistic Neurosociology.- How Cognitive Neuroscience Entered Sociology.- Emergence and Reductionism in Sociology and Neuroscience.- Social Neuroscience and the Modern Synthesis.- of Social and Biological Levels of Analysis.- Notes Toward a Neuroethics.- The Neurosociology of Culture.- Cross Cultural Neurosociology.- The Brain and Social Pain.- Technology and Society: A Neurosociological Perspective.- Genetics and the Brain.- The Evolution of the Neurological Basis of Human Sociality.- Genetic, Hormonal, and Neural Underpinnings of Human Aggressive Behavior.-Neurology and Interpersonal Behavior The Basic Challenge for Neurosociology.- Relationships Between Neurosociology, Foundational Social Behaviorism, and Currents in Symbolic Interaction.- The Neurosociology of Emotions.- On the Neural Underpinnings of Empathy and Social Organization.- The Brain, Self, and Society.- What Are the Neurological Foundations of Identities and Identity-Related Processes.- Role-Taking and the Mirror Neuron System.- Neurosociology and Theory of Mind ToM.- The Neurosociology of Interpersonal Accommodation.- Network Structure, Cognition, and the Brain.- An Introduction to Neurosociological Methods.- Ambulatory Methods in Neurosociology.- Optimum Group Sizes for Hyperscanning Studies in Neurosociology.- The Neurosociology of Racial Inequality.- Persistent Inequality: A Neurosociological Perspective.- Neurosociology and Mental Health.- Social Networks, the Brain, and Well-Being.
About the author
Will Kalkhoff is Professor of Sociology at Kent State University, and executive director of the Electrophysiological Neuroscience Laboratory of Kent, and a former executive committee member of the Brain Health Research Institute. He is also past chair of the Evolution, Biology, and Society Section of the American Sociological Association with research interests in neurosociology and social psychology.
Rengin B. Firat is a Professor of Leadership and Change at Antioch University’s Graduate School of Leadership and Change. She has previously worked as a senior researcher and neuroscientist at the Korn Ferry Institute and as a tenure-track professor at the University of California, Riverside and Georgia State University. Her work cuts across sociology and the neurosciences to investigate inter-group relations and ethno-racial disparities of health and well-being.
Joseph Dippong is Associate Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His research interests center on examining how social structure affects patterns of nonconscious behavioral synchrony between interaction partners, as well as how such differences communicate perceptions of power and status differences.
Summary
This new edition of the very successful handbook documents the incredible theoretical, empirical, and methodological progress within neurosociology since its previous publication in 2013. Led by the next generation of leading neurosociologists Will Kalkhoff, Rengin Firat, and Joseph Dippong, it adds nearly two dozen new chapters. The handbook adds to the critical contribution of the first edition in certifying the unique role of neurosociology and highlighting emerging contributions within the larger sphere of interdisciplinary work combining neural and social perspectives. The chapters in this edition overview cutting-edge methodologies and advance neurosociological perspectives on a broad range of foundational and substantive topics, from the neural underpinnings of identity and interaction to neurosociological models of racial and other enduring inequalities.
An impressive collection of established and emerging scholars has contributed to this edition, which provides an up-to-date and accessible overview of the field for researchers, students, practitioners, and policymakers alike.
