The Skin, the Skull, and the Self: Toward a Sociology of the Brain

Abstract

The brain is a troubling object for sociologists. This chapter was written at a time in which sociologists are reexamining topics such as the body, material culture, and the nature of intelligence. We speak easily of the body in a Foucauldian sense as laced through with discourses, constituted intersubjectively, a true body politic with a sociology of its own. We are beginning to venture, trailing anthropology by some distance, to examine the materials that shape human work and interaction: tools, scientific materials, various sorts of architectures and physical arrangements. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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