Editorial: Neurosociology: A New Field for Transdisciplinary Social Analysis

Within this research theme, it was possible to open a new transdisciplinary Frontier, within which sociology and neuroscience in general, can contribute to the improvement of social researchers and all interested scholars, expanding the different levels of analysis of the social sciences. The key concept, from the classics of sociological thought, is based on a discipline that can contain this cultural transformation initiated by the discovery of mirror neurons forward, namely neurosociology. The latter must be considered as the discipline that investigates social interactions and socialization with respect to the structures and functions of the brain. As a transformative perspective that builds on the postulates of sociology and, therefore, whose goal is not to favor one discipline over another, it falls within the trappings of a discipline that aims to investigate how the human brain influences the complicated set of forces that drive human relationships and social organization. However, the distinctiveness of this approach also warrants the analysis of neurosociology within social processes and how they influence neural function. Therefore, neurosociology is closely related to sociology underlying the socio-cultural-interactionist derivation of every behavior. The contributions collected, therefore, range from bibliographic and purely theoretical reviews, up to empirical research, the set of products, collected within this call, will allow expanding the field and, above all, open to trans-disciplinarity.