Neurosociology: The Nexus Between Neuroscience and Social Psychology

As a career sociologist I first became interested in neurosociology around 1987 when a graduate student lent me Michael Gazzaniga’s The Social Brain. Ifthe biological human brain was really social, I thought sociologists and their students should be the first, not the last, to know. As I read on I found little of the clumsy reductionism of the earlier biosociologists whom I had learned to see as the arch- emy of our field. Clearly, reductionism does exist among many neuroscientists. But I a...