Carmen James Schifellite is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Ryerson University in Toronto. His writing and research includes work in the sociology of knowledge, the sociology of science, science and technology studies, and science and engineering education.
"""Carmen James Schifellite has produced a remarkably suggestive study of the way(s) in which sociobiology, a newly christened field in 1975, became incorporated into mainstream college biology textbooks and curriculum. (He) has done a marvelous job of integrating a variety of issues surrounding sociobiology and its critics [...] A must read for all biologists, textbook authors, and educators."" (Garland E. Allen, Professor of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis) ""An insightful account of the social construction of the increasingly popular and pervasive paradigm of sociobiology. Dr. Schifellite's critical analysis [...] should be read not only by biology teachers, but anyone concerned about misleadingly reductive explanations of human behavior."" (D. W. Livingstone, Canada Research Chair in Lifelong Learning and Work; Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology and Equity Studies OISE/UT, University of Toronto) ""How does a scientific field of study develop, establish legitimacy, defend its truth claims against those who would contest them, and change over time? And how are the complexities of these changing claims and contestations best translated into scientific textbooks? Carmen James Schifellite engages these questions in his impressive account of the development of sociobiology and its successor sciences [...] This is a must read for anyone who cares about the quality of scientific debate and wishes to read or write scientific texts intelligently."" (Susan McKinnon, Professor of Anthropology, University of Virginia) ""Carmen James Schifellite deftly takes the reader below the surface of a scientific controversy so that a higher level of intellectual discourse can take place within and about biology textbooks and beyond. A remarkably rich theoretical and practical book for biologists, sociologists, and educators."" (John Novak, Professor of Education, Graduate and Undergraduate Program, Faculty of Education, Brock University)"