Biosocial Studies
A special issue of Societies (ISSN 2075-4698).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 September 2023)
Special Issue Editor
Interests: sociology of health and disabilities; social sustainability and wellness; urban sociology; mixed methods; biosociology; biosocial semiotics; moral and daily sociology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Biosocial studies are a set of approaches that lie in the space of knowledge generated by biology and sociology. This space takes us back to the beginnings of social studies where biology and social sciences walked side by side. Today, these studies are being revitalised. For this reason, at Societies, we want to contribute to strengthening this discipline and its research. When we think about biosocial research, we think of medicine, but the relationship between genetics and society, epigenetics, social evolution, the environment and the social, etc. could also be present. In short, it is a diverse and plural set of approaches of great interest and relevance for today’s world.
In this Special Issue, we want to bring together the best international biosocial research. For this reason, we hope to feature the work of social scientists interested in and concerned with the environment, health, diseases, biology, disability, old age, climate, and energies in their relation to society. All these approaches also need a broad methodological perspective, so the issue is open to theoretical and empirical (quantitative and qualitative) work. We believe that studies of a conceptual nature and future hypotheses would also be of great interest.
This issue aims to advance biosocial studies from a broad and diversified approach. The biosocial helps us to better understand the surrounding reality. Think, for a moment, of the numerous studies on SARS-CoV-2, or of the possibilities that the social sciences offer to biomedicine or the science of care. On the other hand, we would like this issue to help biologists to understand that the social sciences can help them and complement their research. All in all, this is an exciting and thought-provoking topic.
Contributions have to follow one of the three categories of papers (article, conceptual paper or review) of the journal and address the topic of the Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Juan R. Coca
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- social evolution
- social biomedicine
- health
- biology–society relations
- social environmental
- bio-social constraints
