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Genes, Brains, and Politics Self-Selection and Social Life
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Elliott White
Book Code: C4468
ISBN: 0-275-94468-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-94468-1
208 pages, figures, tables
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 6/30/1993
List Price: $103.95 (UK Sterling Price: £59.95)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: White moves from a simple proposition maintaining that all individuals seek suitable surroundings to propose a provocative approach to social and political action. Rooting his position in modern life sciences and particularly in sociobiology and neurobiology, he establishes an "IMPish" model that is "interactional," "mentalist," and "populational." Interactional in that both heredity and environment are credited for due influence on individuals' traits; mentalist in that individuals' actions can be purposeful rather than simply determined; and populational in his insistence that the unique persona must not be slighted in the rush to fashion statistics. Applying his behavioral principles most notably relevant to self-selection and using examples derived from modern political action, White examines the importance of these fundamental orientations in the social and political orders. The work has implications for policy assessment and re-formulation. It constitutes a challenge to much of the widely accepted contemporary political theory and public policy approaches.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Brains, Bonds, and Politics
  • Brains, Bonds, and Bureaucracy
  • Shadow Networks and Self-Selection
  • The Neuropolitics of Local-Cosmopolitan Self-Selection
  • Locals, Cosmopolitans, and Politics
  • The Neuropolitics of the Constitution
  • The Neuropolitics of Alienation
  • Gene-Environment Interaction
  • Self-Selection and Sexual Politics
  • References
  • Index
LC Card Number: 92-28548
LCC Class: QP356
Dewey Class: 304.5
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