biosocial
adjEtymology From bio- + social.
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Biology, Human sciences, Natural sciences, Sciences, Social science, Sociology Of or pertaining to both biological and social features.
- Man’s so-called instinctual needs are actually shaped—and this may include inhibiting, fostering, or even creating “needs”—by the social games prevalent in his milieu. The view of a dual, biosocial determination of behavior has become incorporated into psychoanalytic theory through increasing emphasis on ego psychology and object relationships.1974, Thomas S. Szasz, chapter 12, in The Myth of Mental Illness, →ISBN, page 199:
- Derived terms
- biosocially, psychobiosocial