Sal Restivo

The Social Brain

Sociological Foundations

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book introduces the idea of the social brain networked in the world. The author's foundational thesis is that humans appear in evolution always, already, and everywhere social. We have social selves, social brains, and social genes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 539g
• ISBN-13: 9781666927054
• ISBN-10: 1666927058
• Artikelnr.: 66353004

Autorenporträt

Sal Restivo is a retired sociologist/anthropologist, a founding member and former president of the Society for Social Studies of Sciences, and the editor-in-chief of Oxford's Science, Technology, and Society: An Encyclopedia (2005).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Preface: Caveat Emptor
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Sociological Imagination
Chapter 2. Sociology Comes into View
Chapter 3. Evolution Invents the Social
Chapter 4. Individual and Society
Chapter 5. The Social Body in Society and Politics
Chapter 6. Genius Incorporated
Chapter 7. Improvisation Incorporated
Chapter 8. From The Matrix to Reality: Are We Brains in Vats, Simulations,
or Brains in the World?
Chapter 9. Robots, AI, Brains, and Bodies in the Information Age
Chapter 10. The Sociology of Consciousness
Chapter 11. The Social Life of the Brain
Chapter 12. The Social Brain in Health and Illness
Chapter 13. Final Considerations: Brain, Society, and Sociology
Bibliography
About the Author