REVISITING SOCIAL NEUROSCIENCE, Schutt et.al, Harvard Press, 2015

Created in the early 90’s the field would fit nicely in the last page of an INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY, GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY, and BIOLOGY textbooks.

An example of a perfect source is for the authors of such textbooks to borrow from this book to describe the inter-relations between the three fields.

This of course would lead the student to see that nature and nurture compliment each other. The 20^th century was a political struggle between the Right that created paradigms that the rich “earned” their way to the top by talented individuals. The Left maintained that the Natural Order was really a Social Order and that individuals were social creatures. Fortunately, the two have now come together. How?

Schutt and his fellow authors bring together numerous essays that describe the ties. Current work is displayed in this author’s BIOCHEMICAL SOCIOLOGY, and HIBBING’S experiments in the location of the cebreal cortex of conservatives and progressives. Both of these last sources bring the duality of research to the nature and nurture results.

Not long ago, the late Dr. George Helling of St. Olaf College often stated “there are no walls between the disciplines.”