SOCIAL NEUROSCIENCE
Linking the social brain to the social world through network connections.
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Pescosolido, B. A. (2015). Linking the social brain to the social world through network connections. In R. K. Schutt, L. J. Seidman, & M. S. Keshavan (Eds.), Social neuroscience: Brain, mind, and society (pp. 247–279). Harvard University Press. https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674286719-011
Abstract
Here, I argue that consilience, more recently expressed as transdisciplinarity, requires (1) three fundamental understandings—biological foundations, biological embedding, and social embeddedness—and (2) a framework linking them. Together, they serve as the platform to facilitate cross-communication across the natural, social, behavioral, physical, medical, and public health sciences that 100 years of development within each of these traditions has downplayed. I leave the first fundamental understanding to those who know it, but I describe the latter two and end by suggesting one possible new framework, the Social Symbiome. It draws from a Networks and Complex Systems science approach, which offers enough of a shared perspective and language to deconstruct the “Tower of Babel” that plagues efforts at serious integration of insights across the disciplines. As the Institute of Medicine noted, one of the basic challenges that faces transdisciplinary integration lies in the scores of factors and forces that the social and behavioral sciences bring to the table regarding human health and development. I argue that networks can serve as a prime organizational vector of transdisciplinary integration that can narrow those possibilities. Finally, though I draw on examples across health problems, I often focus on issues surrounding mental health and substance abuse, targeting suicide as a key research question. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
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