The definition of the word "biosocial"
is:
of,
pertaining to, or entailing the interaction or combination of social and biological
factors.
As the word
suggests, biosocial contains aspects of both biology and sociology.
A biosocial task, then, is anything one does which connects the two things. For example,
cutting down all the trees in a primitive forest is an act which has purely biological
ramifications--unless it is the forest from which a tribe of people gain their
sustenance. Then it becomes a biosocial action because it changes how a culture
lives.
Social behaviors can also be affected by biological
factors, such as how people dress (depending on the weather) and what they eat
(depending on what is available in their environment).
The
word task does imply something more deliberate than, say,
inadvertently polluting water which then changes the fishing habits of people
downstream; however, anything which impacts both the biology and social behavior of
something else would be considered a bisosocial act.
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