Social Science in the Age of Biology

Abstract

Social Scientists and Biologists both seek to understand and explain the observed variations in human behaviour, but they differ in how they ascribe causal factors. Social Scientists ascribe the forces of social conditioning, culture and economics as causes for variations in human behaviour while biologists seek to explain the same in terms of differences in biological constitution. This work is an attempt at consolidating attempts from both camps from the past as well as in recent times. The aim is to familiarise people from both camps with the conventions of the discipline of the other so as to get them to engage more to develop a holistic, comprehensive and robust theory of human nature and nurture.