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Brave new brains: sociology, family and the politics of knowledge.
- Source :
- Sociological Review; May2016, Vol. 64 Issue 2, p219-237, 19p, 1 Color Photograph
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- This article critically explores sociological arguments for greater biosocial synthesis, centring contemporary developments in public policy to demonstrate how such a reframing of humanity tends to reinforce existing political orders and socially patterned normativities. The case for further amalgamation of the social and life sciences is examined to suggest that production of somatic markers of truth from relational encounters largely relies upon an anaemic and politically contained version of the social as acquired in early childhood. More specifically, the gendered, classed and culturally specific practice of parenting children has come to occupy a new significance in accounts of social brains and environmentally reactive genomes. This is highlighted through a discussion of 'early intervention' as a heavily biologized policy rationale framing opportunities for biosocial collaboration. It is argued that late capitalist objectives of personal investment and optimization are driving this assimilation of the social and life sciences, pursuing an agenda that traces and re-scores long-standing social divisions in the name of progress. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- BIOSOCIAL theory
SOCIOLOGY
FAMILIES
PARENTING
SOCIAL theory
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00380261
- Volume :
- 64
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Sociological Review
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 115377412
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-954X.12374