Genetic Configurations of Political Phenomena: New Theories, New Methods Export

@article{citeulike:2570528, abstract = {Recent research by E. O. Wilson, Alford-Hibbing, Carmen, and others indicates that the competing social science paradigms of behavioralism and rational choice are in their last throes. Their salient weakness is insensitivity, bordering on ignorance, to politics as a biologically orchestrated phenomenon. More specifically, political scientists know precious little about either genetics or evolutionary dynamics. In this article, the author presents a new theorysociogenomicsto replace the shopworn conceptions of yesterday's political science. The author then demonstrates how social scientists can employ the tools of molecular biology to flesh out the genes coding for baseline political attitudes and behaviors. The theory and methods of sociogenomics will serve to synthesize the social sciences with the natural sciences in a broader consilient framework, so that the laboratory of Darwinian investigation can become the laboratory of Aristotelian investigation. 10.1177/0002716207305271}, author = {Carmen, Ira H.}, citeulike-article-id = {2570528}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002716207305271}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://ann.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/614/1/34}, doi = {10.1177/0002716207305271}, journal = {The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science}, keywords = {genetics, politics, society, theory}, month = {November}, number = {1}, pages = {34--55}, posted-at = {2008-03-21 18:53:55}, priority = {4}, title = {Genetic Configurations of Political Phenomena: New Theories, New Methods}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002716207305271}, volume = {614}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2570528 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2570528 N2 - Recent research by E. O. Wilson, Alford-Hibbing, Carmen, and others indicates that the competing social science paradigms of behavioralism and rational choice are in their last throes. Their salient weakness is insensitivity, bordering on ignorance, to politics as a biologically orchestrated phenomenon. More specifically, political scientists know precious little about either genetics or evolutionary dynamics. In this article, the author presents a new theorysociogenomicsto replace the shopworn conceptions of yesterday's political science. The author then demonstrates how social scientists can employ the tools of molecular biology to flesh out the genes coding for baseline political attitudes and behaviors. The theory and methods of sociogenomics will serve to synthesize the social sciences with the natural sciences in a broader consilient framework, so that the laboratory of Darwinian investigation can become the laboratory of Aristotelian investigation. 10.1177/0002716207305271 IS - 1 JF - The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science EP - 55 TI - Genetic Configurations of Political Phenomena: New Theories, New Methods VL - 614 SP - 34 KW - genetics KW - politics KW - society KW - theory AU - Carmen, Ira PY - 2007/11/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002716207305271 ER -