Tarani Chandola - Work, health and wellbeing: some biosocial perspectives
Channel: Understanding Society: UKHLS
Date: 2019-08-20

With the advent of novel biomarkers measing different aspects of human biology being collected in large surveys, there has been an explosion of biosocial studies on associations between new biomarkers and social phenotypes. Alongside, there has been increasing criticism of the methods and theoretical implications of these biosocial studies from sociologists, anthropologists and other social sciences. While much of the critical focus has been on the biological-to-social framework, this keynote talk will highlight some social-to-biological research examples within the sociology or work, health and wellbeing using data from Understanding Society.