Sociology was long completely resistant to include genetic variation into its theorizing and methodology. This reluctance has diminished a lot over the very last years.
It became clear that the old zero-sum confrontation betwen nature and nurture is obsolete. Quite in contrast, sociological thinking is required for understanding how genes do not only influence eye and hair color but also life styles, habits, and and social inequalities. Vice versa, genetic information can help to understand why different people react differently to the same social circumstances, and why the same genetic makeup leads to different life course outcomes dependent on social circumstances at the level of networks, organizations, and institutions. We resume how genetically informed research can fruitfully "dock" to "conventional" sociological wisdom.
In this seminar you will get familiar with theories (gene-environment correlation and interaction) and methods (behavioral genetic modeling, molecular genetics) to investigate how genes and social forces together influence life course outcomes. We then discuss several empirical studies and what their results mean for our understanding of social forces.
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