title: A turn to biology: The future development of sociological knowledge
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metadata.value: Bogomiagkova, Elena S.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-04-25T16:32:02Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-04-25T16:32:02Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-03
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Bogomiagkova E. S. A turn to biology: The future development of sociological knowledge. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Sociology, 2018, vol. 11, issue 1, pp. 35–50.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu12.2018.104
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/9477
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article is devoted to consideration of the issues of a “turn to biology” in modern social
  sciences. It is discussed how reasonable is the use of this term, and which new issues and
  phenomena have appeared in the field of social sciences because of this shift. Progress in biomedical
  knowledge and in medical technology and biotechnology has a significant impact on
  the sociological agenda, transforming not only beliefs about the bases of health, disease and
  functioning of the institute of medicine, but interpretation of social actions, practices, social
  structures and group cohesion. The article briefly describes both the process of penetration of
  biomedical terms and concepts in the discourse of the social sciences and the transformation
  of traditional ideas about the dichotomy of nature/culture. It is proposed to use the concept
  of biosociality by P. Rabinow as a promising concept for understanding of these phenomena.
  Two main research areas where the issues of the “turn to biology” are in the focus of attention
  were highlighted. First, we are interested in medicalization and in the associated processes of
  biomedicalization and genetization of society. Second, sociological interest in the body and its
  scientific interpretation are considered. Progress in biology, changing understanding of health
  and disease, has an impact not only on the individual and collective social practices of caring
  for the body (for example, “patients-in-waiting”), but also contributes to the formation of
  new kinds of social cohesion and structures of social inequality. The process of medicalization
  continues in biomedicalization and genetization of society, which are based on the view on the
  human body as a project or material, ready for modification. Resulting from the interaction
  between medical knowledge and political and economic institutions, biological and genetic
  realities permeate everyday life and become an object of interest for the social sciences. Special
  attention should be paid to the analysis of the shift in values of the modern society, according
  to which “biological/genetic” becomes a significant explanatory category in mundane and
  scientific discourses.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Sociology;Volume 11; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the turn to biology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: sociology of medicine and health
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: medical anthropology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: sociology of body
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: medicalization
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: biomedicalization
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: genetization
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: A turn to biology: The future development of sociological knowledge
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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