Evolutionary Theory In Social Science

Author : M. Schmid,Franz M. Wuketits
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 286 pages
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Release : 1987-10-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9027726124

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Evolutionary Theory in Social Science by M. Schmid,Franz M. Wuketits Pdf

In retrospect the 19th century tmdoubtedly seems to be the century of evolutionism. The 'discovery of time' and therewith the experience of variability was made by many sciences: not only historians worked on the elaboration and interpretation of this discovery, but also physicists, geographers, biologists and economists, demographers, archaelogists, and even philosophers. The successful empirical fotmdation of evolutive processes by Darwin and his disciples suggested Herbert Spencer's vigorously pursued efforts in searching for an extensive' catalogue of prime and deduced evolutionary principles that would allow to integrate the most different disciplines of natural and social sciences as well as the efforts of philosophers of ethics and epistemologists. Soon it became evident, however, that the claim for integration anticipated by far the actual results of these different disciplines. Darwin I s theory suffered from the fact that in the beginning a hereditary factor which could have his theory could not be detected, while the gainings of grotmd supported in the social sciences got lost in consequence of the completely ahistorical or biologistic speculations of some representatives of the evolutionary research programm and common socialdarwinistic misinterpretations.

Author : William M. Dugger
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Evolution
ISBN : 0415247195

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Evolutionary Theory in the Social Sciences: Evolution and revolution by William M. Dugger Pdf

Author : M. Schmid,Franz M. Wuketits
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400940055

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Evolutionary Theory in Social Science by M. Schmid,Franz M. Wuketits Pdf

In retrospect the 19th century tmdoubtedly seems to be the century of evolutionism. The 'discovery of time' and therewith the experience of variability was made by many sciences: not only historians worked on the elaboration and interpretation of this discovery, but also physicists, geographers, biologists and economists, demographers, archaelogists, and even philosophers. The successful empirical fotmdation of evolutive processes by Darwin and his disciples suggested Herbert Spencer's vigorously pursued efforts in searching for an extensive' catalogue of prime and deduced evolutionary principles that would allow to integrate the most different disciplines of natural and social sciences as well as the efforts of philosophers of ethics and epistemologists. Soon it became evident, however, that the claim for integration anticipated by far the actual results of these different disciplines. Darwin I s theory suffered from the fact that in the beginning a hereditary factor which could have his theory could not be detected, while the gainings of grotmd supported in the social sciences got lost in consequence of the completely ahistorical or biologistic speculations of some representatives of the evolutionary research programm and common socialdarwinistic misinterpretations.

Author : Heinz-Jurgen Niedenzu,Tamas Meleghy,Peter Meyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317255482

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New Evolutionary Social Science by Heinz-Jurgen Niedenzu,Tamas Meleghy,Peter Meyer Pdf

Social scientists have long declared their autonomy from the natural sciences, and in doing so have tended to neglect important biological constraints on human nature. Many sociological theories have suggested a nearly complete malleability of patterns of social life. The New Evolutionary Social Science challenges this view by building on Stephen K. Sanderson's 'Darwinian conflict theory' which sets out to synthesise sociological theories with key findings from biology into an overarching scientific paradigm. Configuring and expanding this groundbreaking theory, the contributors to this volume are well-known European and American experts in evolutionary science. The New Evolutionary Social Science develops a new basis for understanding social change and the world's future through a better integration of the natural and social sciences.

Author : Alexandra Maryanski,Richard Machalek,Jonathan H. Turner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 981 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317258322

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Handbook on Evolution and Society by Alexandra Maryanski,Richard Machalek,Jonathan H. Turner Pdf

"Handbook on Evolution and Society" brings together original chapters by prominent scholars who have been instrumental in the revival of evolutionary theorizing and research in the social sciences over the last twenty-five years. Previously unpublished essays provide up-to-date, critical surveys of recent research and key debates. The contributors discuss early challenges posed by sociobiology, the rise of evolutionary psychology, the more conflicted response of evolutionary sociology to sociobiology, and evolutionary psychology. Chapters address the application and limitations of Darwinian ideas in the social sciences. Prominent authors come from a variety of disciplines in ecology, biology, primatology, psychology, sociology, and the humanities. The most comprehensive resource available, this vital collection demonstrates to scholars and students the new ways in which evolutionary approaches, ultimately derived from biology, are influencing the diverse social sciences and humanities.

Author : Howard J. Sherman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Evolutionary economics
ISBN : 0415247160

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Evolutionary Theory in the Social Sciences: Evolution and revolution by Howard J. Sherman Pdf

Author : William M. Dugger,Howard J. Sherman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:874339608

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Evolutionary Theory in the Social Sciences by William M. Dugger,Howard J. Sherman Pdf

Author : Alexander Riley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000376210

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Toward a Biosocial Science by Alexander Riley Pdf

Sociology is in crisis. While other disciplines have taken on board the revolutionary discoveries driven by evolutionary biology and psychology, genomics and behavioral genetics, and the neurosciences, sociology has ignored these advances and embraced a biophobia that threatens to drive the discipline into marginality. This book takes its place in a rich tradition of efforts to integrate sociological thinking into the world of the biological sciences that can be traced to the origins of the discipline, and that took on modern form beginning a generation ago in the works of thinkers such as E.O. Wilson, Richard Alexander, Joseph Lopreato, and Richard Machalek. It offers an accessible introduction to rethinking sociological science in consonance with these contemporary biological revolutions. From the standpoint of a biosociology rooted in the single most important scientific theory touching on human life, the Darwinian theory of natural selection, the book sketches an evolutionary social science that would enable us to properly attend to basic questions of human nature, human behavior, and human social organization. Individual chapters take on such topics as: The roots and nature of human sociality; the origins of morality in human social life and an evolutionary perspective on human interests, reciprocity, and altruism; the sex difference in our species and what it contributes to an explanation of sociological facts; the nature of stratification, status, and inequality in human evolutionary history; the question of race in our species; and the contribution evolutionary theory makes to explaining the origins and the importance of culture in human societies.

Author : Ignazio Masulli
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 2881243762

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Nature and History by Ignazio Masulli Pdf

First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781108470971

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Human Evolution Beyond Biology and Culture by Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh Pdf

A complete account of evolutionary thought in the social, environmental and policy sciences, creating bridges with biology.

Author : Jonathan H. Turner,Richard S. Machalek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351173865

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The New Evolutionary Sociology by Jonathan H. Turner,Richard S. Machalek Pdf

For decades, evolutionary analysis was overlooked or altogether ignored by sociologists. Fears and biases persisted nearly a century after Auguste Comte gave the discipline its name, as did concerns that its effect would only reduce sociology to another discipline – whether biology, psychology, or economics. Worse, apprehension that the application of evolutionary theory would encourage heightened perceptions of racism, sexism, ethnocentrism and reductionism pervaded. Turner and Machalek argue instead for a new embrace of biology and evolutionary analysis. Sociology, from its very beginnings in the early 19th century, has always been concerned with the study of evolution, particularly the transformation of societies from simple to ever-more complex forms. By comprehensively reviewing the original ways that sociologists applied evolutionary theory and examining the recent renewal and expansion of these early approaches, the authors confront the challenges posed by biology, neuroscience, and psychology to distinct evolutionary approaches within sociology. They emerge with key theoretical and methodological discoveries that demonstrate the critical – and compelling – case for a dramatically enriched sociology that incorporates all forms of comparative evolutionary analysis to its canon and study of sociocultural phenomena.

Author : Paul Q. Hirst
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135155728

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Social Evolution and Sociological Categories (Routledge Revivals) by Paul Q. Hirst Pdf

First published in 1976, this book is concerned with the nature of classification in the social sciences. Its thesis is that classifications are dependent upon and are derived from theoretical explanations. Classification is not a theoretically neutral typification or ordering of social forms. This is because objects classified – societies, social institutions – are not given to knowledge independently of the categories which construct them and because the categories of classification are themselves the products of theories.

Author : Emanuel Adler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108419956

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World Ordering by Emanuel Adler Pdf

"We usually identify international orders with stability and established arrangements of units and institutionalization"--

Author : William Outhwaite,Stephen Turner
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446206454

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The SAGE Handbook of Social Science Methodology by William Outhwaite,Stephen Turner Pdf

"An excellent guidebook through different approaches to social science measurement, including the all-important route-maps that show us how to get there." - Roger Jowell, City University "In this wide-ranging collection of chapters, written by acknowledged experts in their fields, Outhwaite and Turner have brought together material in one volume which will provide an extremely important platform for consideration of the full range of contemporary analytical and methodological issues." - Charles Crothers, Auckland University of Technology This is a jewel among methods Handbooks, bringing together a formidable collection of international contributors to comment on every aspect of the various central issues, complications and controversies in the core methodological traditions. It is designed to meet the needs of those disciplinary and nondisciplinary problem-oriented social inquirers for a comprehensive overview of the methodological literature. The text is divided into 7 sections: Overviews of methodological approaches in the social sciences Cases, comparisons and theory Quantification and experiment Rationality, complexity and collectivity Interpretation, critique and postmodernity Discourse construction Engagement. Edited by two leading figures in the field, the Handbook is a landmark work in the field of research methods. More than just a ′cookbook′ that teaches readers how to master techniques, it will give social scientists in all disciplines an appreciation for the full range of methodological debates today, from the quantitative to the qualitative, giving them deeper and sharpen insights into their own research questions. It will generate debate, solutions and a series of questions for researchers to exploit and develop in their research and teaching.

Author : Alex Mesoudi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226520452

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Cultural Evolution by Alex Mesoudi Pdf

Charles Darwin changed the course of scientific thinking by showing how evolution accounts for the stunning diversity and biological complexity of life on earth. Recently, there has also been increased interest in the social sciences in how Darwinian theory can explain human culture. Covering a wide range of topics, including fads, public policy, the spread of religion, and herd behavior in markets, Alex Mesoudi shows that human culture is itself an evolutionary process that exhibits the key Darwinian mechanisms of variation, competition, and inheritance. This cross-disciplinary volume focuses on the ways cultural phenomena can be studied scientifically—from theoretical modeling to lab experiments, archaeological fieldwork to ethnographic studies—and shows how apparently disparate methods can complement one another to the mutual benefit of the various social science disciplines. Along the way, the book reveals how new insights arise from looking at culture from an evolutionary angle. Cultural Evolution provides a thought-provoking argument that Darwinian evolutionary theory can both unify different branches of inquiry and enhance understanding of human behavior.