The Social as Trans-Genic

On Bio-Power and its Implications for the Social

Bibliographic Data

ID2300567
AuthorsThora Margareta Bertilsson (University of Copenhagen, corresponding author)
Year2003
Volume46
Issue2
Pages118-131
Publication date2003-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueActa Sociologica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0001-6993 • E-ISSN: 1502-3869
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0001699303046002003
OpenAlexW1969568472
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited16

This article has a triple aim: (1) it explores how the stunning advance of modern bioscience is affecting the social world, and how once-set boundaries are now being quickly transgressed; (2) it is suggested that the theoretical divides between modernists and post-modernists can be fruitfully viewed, from a sociology of knowledge perspective, as traces of a much more profound and ongoing evolutionary discourse now also affecting the social and the human sciences; (3) concerns are expressed regarding the destabilization of both the natural and the social world alike as a consequence of bioscience: the long-term social effects of the emphasis on individual choice, as presently argued, will eventually erode the system of collective responsibility altogether

Biology · Epistemology · Natural (archaeology · Perspective (graphical · Positive economics · Set (abstract data type · Social science · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Philosophy

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