ILike-Minded

Frank, Adam; Wilson, Elizabeth K.

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“…Nor is it our aim to exhort sociologists to invest en masse in these socially‐inflected biological projects. But we do wish to provoke interest in a ‘revitalized’ sociology that goes well beyond sociological attention to the body (Martin ; Shilling ), or the debates around affect (Leys ; Frank and Wilson ). We want to imagine a highly empirical sociology, attentive to and engaged in contemporary research in the life sciences, focused on the key historical problems of the discipline, but much more ontologically ambitious than the epidemiological demonstration of the ‘social determinants' of health.…”

Section: History and The Presentmentioning

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Revitalizing sociology: urban life and mental illness between history and the present

Fitzgerald

Rose

Singh

2016

British Journal of Sociology

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This paper proposes a re-thinking of the relationship between sociology and the biological sciences. Tracing lines of connection between the history of sociology and the contemporary landscape of biology, the paper argues for a refiguration of this relationship beyond popular rhetorics of 'biologization' or 'medicalization.' At the heart of the paper is a claim that, today, there are some potent new frames for re-imagining the traffic between sociological and biological research -even for 'revitalizing' the sociological enterprise as such. The paper threads this argument through one empirical case: the relationship between urban life and mental illness. In its first section, it shows how this relationship enlivened both early psychiatric epidemiology, and some forms of the new discipline of sociology; it then traces the historical division of these sciences, as the sociological investment in psychiatric questions waned, and 'the social' become marginalized within an increasingly 'biological' psychiatry. In its third section, however, the paper shows how this relationship has lately been revivified, but now by a nuanced epigenetic and neurobiological attention to the links between mental health and urban life. What role can sociology play here? In its final section, the paper shows how this older sociology, with its lively interest in the psychiatric and neurobiological vicissitudes of urban social life, can be our guide in helping to identify intersections between sociological and biological attention. With a new century now underway, the paper concludes by suggesting that the relationship between urban life and mental illness may prove a core testing-ground for a 're-vitalized' sociology.1

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Section: History and The Presentmentioning

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Revitalizing sociology: urban life and mental illness between history and the present

Fitzgerald

Rose

Singh

2016

British Journal of Sociology

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“…As Leys suggests, the psychological sciences are one knowledge practice, which has provided humanities theorists with a variety of concepts and theories for ways of theorising affect as non-cognitive process. One figure who has formed a focus for debate and become central to many accounts of affectivity is the work and theories of the American psychologist Silvan Tomkins (see Frank and Wilson, 2012;Wetherell, 2012).…”

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Affect and automaticy: Towards an analytics of experimentation

Blackman

2014

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This article is a response to an increasing rapprochement taking place between the humanities and the sciences, and specifically between cultural theory and the cognitive sciences within the field of affect studies. The focus of the article will be on the area of automaticity research in both its past and present formations. This field of research has furnished cultural theorists with concepts and theories for animating affect and therefore provides a fruitful intersection for interdisciplinary enquiry. The article offers a strategy of incorporating cognitive science into affect theory that returns to a pre-positivist analytics of experimentation found within early psychology. When this analytics is brought into dialogue with science and technology studies and performative approaches to experimentation, the problematic of subjectivity is not displaced or elided but rather becomes a central recurring issue. It will explore what might be at stake in such strategies of appropriation and re-invention.

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“…Adam Frank and I have argued elsewhere that there are non-trivial differences between the work of Tomkins and Ekman that put the claim for a coherent (let alone triumphant) lineage of emotion into doubt. Emotion in Ekman is often 'basic' in the way that Leys describes ('a limited number of discrete emotions defined as pan-cultural or universal, inherited, and adaptive responses of the organism'; p. 33), but all this represents a deviation from Tomkins's work, not an intensification of it (Frank and Wilson, 2012). For example, Tomkins uses the word 'primary' (rather than 'basic') to describe the affects, and there is a strong reading to be made that Tomkins may be most interested in highlighting the primacy of affects as motivators of human behaviour, rather than advocating, as Ekman does, for their universal nature.…”

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ILike-Minded

Cited by 32 publications

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Revitalizing sociology: urban life and mental illness between history and the present

Revitalizing sociology: urban life and mental illness between history and the present

Affect and automaticy: Towards an analytics of experimentation

Affect, genealogy, history – Review Symposium on Ruth Leys’s The Ascent of Affect

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