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Policy and ethical implications of biosocial research
- Source :
- Population Research and Policy Review. 14:347-357
- Publication Year :
- 1995
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 1995.
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Abstract
- Social scientists are often concerned that research about the biological causes of behavior will encourage biologically-based public policy. Biosocial research models, jointly examining both social and biological causes of behavior, prevent simplistic biological thinking. Public policy is concerned with bringing about social change. Biological models of behavior primarily explain individual differences, and are not useful for guiding policies directed toward producing social change. When we allow our social ethics to prevent us from asking certain research questions, we will produce politically correct research results. We fall into such strategies because we imagine that ethics can be deduced from the nature of the world.
- Subjects :
- Social Problems
Intelligence
Social Sciences
Public policy
Public Policy
Genetics, Behavioral
Violence
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Nature versus nurture
Sex Factors
Sociobiology
Humans
Women
Sociology
Social science
Biology
Demography
Social influence
Ethical code
Research
Racial Groups
Social change
Social ethic
Men
Environmental ethics
Biosocial theory
Social Control, Formal
Female
Research questions
Sexuality
Behavioral Research
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15737829 and 01675923
- Volume :
- 14
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Population Research and Policy Review
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....48fbd4dce34a3f86e68e1df18b06c2d7