ABSTRACT
In part, this neglect stems from a desire to avoid biological reductionism and determinism. It also no doubt arises, as a consequence of the need to put distance between sociology and the bio-medical model. However, in common with most of the social sciences it is the sheer intellectual difficulty of integrating an analysis of biological factors within a genuinely sociological explanation that is the real problem. How is it possible to integrate something which is biological, with all its associated explanatory frameworks within another explanatory system, which in some versions at least, deny the possibility of the biological explanations a priori? How is it possible not to reduce the social to the biological? How is it possible to retain the integrity of a sociological explanation?
