ABSTRACT

Social by Nature, the recent book by Catherine Bliss on the development and state of the field of sociogenomics, is far from perfect. Yet, this flawed book levies a mixture of erroneous and compelling questions about the state of the field of sociogenomics, many of which we as a field would benefit from considering: How should we bring the environment back in the post-GWAS era? How do the publication and funding incentives of our field influence the evolution of our research agenda? What role should social scientific theory play in motivating our research and interpreting our findings? How can we promote greater diversity in our research community and subjects? And how can we work to better control media and popular narratives of our research? The authors do not attempt to answer all of these questions definitively, but do argue that we as a field must grapple with them seriously to ensure that our ideals and reality as a field are more congruent.

摘要

凯瑟琳·布利斯（Catherine Bliss）最近出版的关于社会基因组学领域的发展和现状的书《社会本质》远非完美。然而，这本有缺陷的书对社会基因组学领域的现状提出了一系列错误且令人信服的问题，其中许多问题我们作为一个领域可以从考虑中受益：我们应该如何让环境回到后 GWAS 时代？我们领域的出版和资助激励如何影响我们研究议程的演变？社会科学理论在推动我们的研究和解释我们的发现方面应发挥什么作用？我们如何才能促进研究社区和学科的更大多样性？我们如何才能更好地控制我们研究的媒体和流行叙述？作者并不试图明确回答所有这些问题，但确实认为我们作为一个领域必须认真地解决这些问题，以确保我们作为一个领域的理想和现实更加一致。