Social Neuroscience and the Modern Synthesis of Social and Biological Levels of Analysis

Norman, Greg J.; Hawkley, Louise C.; Luhmann, Maike; Cacioppo, John T.; Berntson, Gary G.

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“…Especially regarding the future development of sociological theories in general as well as the sociological violence research, cognitive neurosciences matter. They do not promote a biological reductionism in any way, but emphasize the mutual significance of the brain, neuronal processes, and social contexts [Franks 2010: 1-17; Franks and Turner 2013b: 4; Lakoff 2013; Norman et al 2013; Ray 2016, 2018: 15-23; Swedberg 2016: 18]. Against this backdrop, in the following, only such approaches from the field of cognitive neuroscientific aggressions and violence research will be taken into account—but only as supplements of the still sociological explanation, which is founded and framed by Norbert Elias’s theoretical work.…”

Section: A Non-reductionist Explanation Of Interpersonal Violence: Nementioning

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Interpersonal Violence as an Intrinsic Part of The Civilizing Process

Braun¹

2019

Arch. eur. sociol.

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Even though Elias himself does not focus on an explicit theory on violence inThe Civilizing Process, due to his research question on pacific social processes, violence is not generally theoretically excluded. Against this backdrop, and contrary to criticisms regarding a general loss as well as a biological rather than a sociological explanation of violence, and besides theories that explain meso and macro-level violence within Elias’s framework, this article considers interpersonal micro-level violence as an intrinsic part of the civilizing process. Especially by supplementing Elias’s assumptions of drive control and self-constraint with recent neuroscientific findings, it is possible to conceptualize interpersonal micro-level violence as situational exceedance of a subjective threshold of pain. Here, despite a normative civilized frame of behavior, aggression, as a (neuro)biologically-based reactive drive, is no longer controlled by socially learned self-constraint, leading to violence as a subjectively perceived rewarding behavior and socially performed action.

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Section: A Non-reductionist Explanation Of Interpersonal Violence: Nementioning

confidence: 99%

Interpersonal Violence as an Intrinsic Part of The Civilizing Process

Braun¹

2019

Arch. eur. sociol.

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Biology and American Sociology, Part II: Developing a Unique Evolutionary Sociology

Turner

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Keshavan

2020

Am Soc

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In sociology's formative period between 1830 and 1930, evolutionary analysis organized much theorizing and research. This line of work ended abruptly in the 1920s but, over the last decades, has come back into the discipline somewhat piecemeal with the reintroduction of more sophisticated stage models of societal evolution, functional analysis, human ecological analysis, and other new lines of evolutionary inquiry outlined in this paper. Our goal is to demonstrate that revitalized paradigms of the past can still be useful with modest reconceptualization, while at the same time new intellectual movements in the other social sciences, especially economics and psychology, incorporating evolutionary ideas from biology provide sociology with an opportunity to develop its own approach to evolutionary analysis that avoids the problems that let to the demise of this line of inquiry in the 1920s, as well as the problems of other social sciences applying their more narrowly focus models to sociological problems. Indeed, sociology can become a leader in the social sciences in developing more sophisticated theoretical and methodological approaches to incorporating biology and evolutionary analysis into the social sciences. When presented in a new, more sophisticated guise, old approaches like functionalism, stage models of societal evolution, and ecological models can be seen as still having a great deal of explanatory power, while revealing a progressive and future orientation that should appeal to all contemporary sociologists. It is time, then, for sociology to remember its past in order to move into the future.

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Social Neuroscience and the Modern Synthesis of Social and Biological Levels of Analysis

Cited by 2 publications

References 96 publications

Interpersonal Violence as an Intrinsic Part of The Civilizing Process

Interpersonal Violence as an Intrinsic Part of The Civilizing Process

Biology and American Sociology, Part II: Developing a Unique Evolutionary Sociology

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