@article{1345d4824b2647fba58b40a419a9fc62,
title = "The Love of Neuroscience: A Sociological Account",
abstract = "I make a contribution to the sociology of epistemologies by examining the neuroscience literature on love from 2000 to 2016. I find that researchers make consequential assumptions concerning the production or generation of love, its temporality, its individual character, and appropriate control conditions. Next, I consider how to account for these assumptions{\textquoteright} being common in the literature. More generally, I{\textquoteright}m interested in the ways in which epistemic communities construe, conceive of, and publicly represent and work with their objects of inquiry—and what{\textquoteright}s thereby assumed about them and about the world. I argue that these implicit or explicit assumptions are a distinct type of explanandum, whose distinctiveness sociology hasn{\textquoteright}t adequately appreciated and taken advantage of. I think it should and I hope it will.",
keywords = "assumptions, knowledge, love, neural correlates, neuroscience, science, sociology of epistemologies",
author = "Gabriel Abend",
note = "Funding Information: As brain activation data could show (Fox et al. 2016), I feel gratitude to the people and organizations I{\textquoteright}ve been helped by. They include Max-Weber-Kolleg f{\"u}r kultur-und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien and New York University. They include Alexander Dmitriev, Anders Blok, Andy Byford, Ann Morning, Bart Bonikowski, Bo Yun Park, Canan Ba{\c s}ar-Eroğlu, Christina Fehr, Daniel Margulies, Dennis Patterson, Devin Terhune, Gil Eyal, Gretty Mirdal, Jane Bennett, Julian J{\"u}rgenmeyer, Kirill Levinson, Leor Halevi, Luciana de Souza Le{\~a}o, Michael Sauder, Mich{\`e}le Lamont, Moran Levy, Offer Egozy, Olessia Kirtchik, Owen Whooley, Patrick Sharkey, Rub{\'e}n Flores, Sergio Sismondo, Simon Luck, Steven Lukes, William Connolly, and audiences at the Poletayev Institute, Higher School of Economics (Moscow), Science, Knowledge, and Technology Workshop, Columbia University (New York), and Culture Workshop, Harvard University (Cambridge). Thank you (Kini et al. 2016). I{\textquoteright}m very grateful to copy editor Mara Grynaviski and the anonymous reviewers for their feedback. Lichtenberg-Kolleg and Institut d{\textquoteright}{\'e}tudes avanc{\'e}es de Paris provided priceless support. This article benefited from a fellowship at the Paris Institute for Advanced Studies, with the financial support of the French State, managed by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche, program “Investissements d{\textquoteright}avenir” (ANR-11-LABX-0027-01 Labex RFIEA+). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018, {\textcopyright} American Sociological Association 2018.",
year = "2018",
month = mar,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1177/0735275118759697",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "36",
pages = "88--116",
journal = "Sociological Theory",
issn = "0735-2751",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell",
number = "1",
}