The Evolution Of Social Institutions

Author : Dmitri M. Bondarenko,Stephen A. Kowalewski,David B. Small
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030514372

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The Evolution of Social Institutions by Dmitri M. Bondarenko,Stephen A. Kowalewski,David B. Small Pdf

This book presents a novel and innovative approach to the study of social evolution using case studies from the Old and the New World, from prehistory to the present. This approach is based on examining social evolution through the evolution of social institutions. Evolution is defined as the process of structural change. Within this framework the society, or culture, is seen as a system composed of a vast number of social institutions that are constantly interacting and changing. As a result, the structure of society as a whole is also evolving and changing. The authors posit that the combination of evolving social institutions explains the non-linear character of social evolution and that every society develops along its own pathway and pace. Within this framework, society should be seen as the result of the compound effect of the interactions of social institutions specific to it. Further, the transformation of social institutions and relations between them is taking place not only within individual societies but also globally, as institutions may be trans-societal, and even institutions that operate in one society can arise as a reaction to trans-societal trends and demands. The book argues that it may be more productive to look at institutions even within a given society as being parts of trans-societal systems of institutions since, despite their interconnectedness, societies still have boundaries, which their members usually know and respect. Accordingly, the book is a must-read for researchers and scholars in various disciplines who are interested in a better understanding of the origins, history, successes and failures of social institutions.

Author : Howard J Sherman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317468462

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How Society Makes Itself: The Evolution of Political and Economic Institutions by Howard J Sherman Pdf

This radical account of the evolution of political, social, and economic institutions weaves together strands of anthropology, sociology, political science, history, and economics. In a highly readable text, Howard Sherman explains the interconnections of ideas and economic forces, and traces the evolution of social and economic institutions from primitive times to the present. Sherman focuses on the myth of "inevitable progress" in technology, and argues that it progresses only when social and economic institutions and dominant ideas encourage it to improve. He shows that throughout history technology, as a part of the economic forces, ebbs and flows to create or undermine existing economic institutions.

Author : Steven Horwitz
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1137448229

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Hayek's Modern Family by Steven Horwitz Pdf

Scholars within the Hayekian-Austrian tradition of classical liberalism have done virtually no work on the family as an economic and social institution. In addition, there is a real paucity of scholarship on the place of the family within classical liberal and libertarian political philosophy. Hayek's Modern Family offers a classical liberal theory of the family, taking Hayekian social theory as the main analytical framework. Horwitz argues that families are social institutions that perform certain irreplaceable functions in society. These functions change as economic, political, and social circumstances change, and the family form adapts accordingly, kicking off the next wave of developments in the social structure. In Hayekian terms, the family is an evolving and undesigned social institution. Horwitz offers a non-conservative defense of the family as a social institution against the view that either the state or "the village" is able or required to take over its irreplaceable functions.

Author : Jonathan H. Turner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0742525597

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Human Institutions by Jonathan H. Turner Pdf

In recent years 'the New Institutionalism' has focused more on organizations in their social and cultural environments than on societal-level institutional systems. Thus, missing from these studies has been a larger sociological analysis of institutions, per se. In his newest book, leading social theorist Jonathan H. Turner offers a creative, richly grounded reinterpretation of social evolution. He ressurrects a level of analysis undertaken by earlier functionalist theorists, but with a new-found emphasis--that of discovering the larger forces driving the formation of human institutional systems. Only by exploring the larger macro-dynamics can the institutions of economy, kinship, religion, polity, law, and education be fully understood, as Turner persuasively shows in this magesterial explication of twenty millenia of human social life.

Author : Ben Jann,Wojtek Przepiorka
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110470697

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Social dilemmas, institutions, and the evolution of cooperation by Ben Jann,Wojtek Przepiorka Pdf

The question of how cooperation and social order can evolve from a Hobbesian state of nature of a “war of all against all” has always been at the core of social scientific inquiry. Social dilemmas are the main analytical paradigm used by social scientists to explain competition, cooperation, and conflict in human groups. The formal analysis of social dilemmas allows for identifying the conditions under which cooperation evolves or unravels. This knowledge informs the design of institutions that promote cooperative behavior. Yet to gain practical relevance in policymaking and institutional design, predictions derived from the analysis of social dilemmas must be put to an empirical test. The collection of articles in this book gives an overview of state-of-the-art research on social dilemmas, institutions, and the evolution of cooperation. It covers theoretical contributions and offers a broad range of examples on how theoretical insights can be empirically verified and applied to cooperation problems in everyday life. By bringing together a group of distinguished scholars, the book fills an important gap in sociological scholarship and addresses some of the most interesting questions of human sociality.

Author : Talcott Parsons
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1985-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226647494

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Talcott Parsons on Institutions and Social Evolution by Talcott Parsons Pdf

Offering a diverse set of contributions to current social contracting research, this volume illustrates how social contracts necessarily underlie and facilitate all forms of capitalist production and exchange. The editors bring together novel contributions from fields as diverse as economics, evolutionary game theory, contract law, business ethics, moral philosophy and anthropology to offer multifaceted but subtly intertwined perspectives on fundamental questions concerning human cooperation.

Author : Andrew Schotter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521067138

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The Economic Theory of Social Institutions by Andrew Schotter Pdf

This book uses game theory to analyse the creation, evolution and function of economic and social institutions. The author illustrates his analysis by describing the organic or unplanned evolution of institutions such as the conventions of war, the use of money, property rights and oligopolistic pricing conventions. Professor Schotter begins by linking his work with the ideas of the philosophers Rawls, Nozick and Lewis. Institutions are regarded as regularities in the behaviour of social agents, which the agents themselves tacitly create to solve a wide variety of recurrent problems. The repetitive nature of the problems permits them to be described as a recurrent game or 'supergame.' The agents use these regularities as informational devices to supplement the information contained in competitive prices. The final chapter explores the applicability of this theory, first by relating it to previous work on the theory of teams, hierarchies, and non-maximizing decision theory, and then by using it to provide a new approach to a variety of questions both within and outside economics.

Author : Seth Abrutyn,Jonathan H. Turner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000471243

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The First Institutional Spheres in Human Societies by Seth Abrutyn,Jonathan H. Turner Pdf

Few concepts are as central to sociology as institutions. Yet, like so many sociological concepts, institutions remain vaguely defined. This book expands a foundational definition of the institution, one which locates them as the basic building blocks of human societies—as structural and cultural machines for survival that make it possible to pass precious knowledge from one generation to the next, ensuring the survival of our species. The book extends this classic tradition by, first, applying advances in biological evolution, neuroscience, and primatology to explain the origins of human societies and, in particular, the first institutional sphere: kinship. The authors incorporate insights from natural sciences often marginalized in sociology, while highlighting the limitations of purely biogenetic, Darwinian explanations. Secondly, they build a vivid conceptual model of institutions and their central dynamics as the book charts the chronological evolution of kinship, polity, religion, law, and economy, discussing the biological evidence for the ubiquity of these institutions as evolutionary adaptations themselves.

Author : Talcott Parsons
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0226647471

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Talcott Parsons on Institutions and Social Evolution by Talcott Parsons Pdf

Talcott Parsons is regarded, by admirers and critics alike, as a major creator of the sociological thought of our time. Despite the universal recognition of his influence, however, Parsons's thought is not well understood, in part because his work presents the reader with almost legendary difficulties. Most of his important essays and books presume that the reader is familiar with his rather specialized vocabulary, and even when Parsons begins by defining basic terms, his special uses for words and his style of exposition strike many readers as forbidding. In his extensive introduction to this volume, Leon H. Mayhew brings a new focus and clarity to Talcott Parsons's work. Explicating Parsons on his own terms, Mayhew discusses the basic tools of Parsonian analysis and interprets the larger themes of his work. He provides a chronological account of the development of Parsons's thought, his presuppositions, and his position on the ideological spectrum of social thought. Mayhew then presents twenty of Parsons's essays, touching on each of the major aspects of his work, including "action" theory and the celebrated four-function scheme. Other topics covered include the role of theory in social research, evolutionary universals in society, influence, control, and the mass media. "Talcott Parsons on Institutions and Social Evolution will become a standard reference for those studying that development of his sociological ideas."—Martin Bulmer, The Times Higher Education Supplement

Author : Richard Ponzio,Arunabha Ghosh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317278535

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Human Development and Global Institutions by Richard Ponzio,Arunabha Ghosh Pdf

This book provides a timely and accessible introduction to the foundational ideas associated with the human development school of thought. It examines its conceptual evolution during the post-colonial era, and discusses how various institutions of the UN system have tried to engage with this issue, both in terms of intellectual and technical advance, and operationally. Showing that human development has had a profound impact on shaping the policy agenda and programming priorities of global institutions, it argues that human development has helped to preserve the continued vitality of major multilateral development programs, funds, and agencies. It also details how human development faces new risks and threats, caused by political, economic, social, and environmental forces which are highlighted in a series of engaging case studies on trade, water, energy, the environment, democracy, human rights, and peacebuilding. The book also makes the case for why human development remains relevant in an increasingly globalized world, while asking whether global institutions will be able to sustain political and moral support from their member states and powerful non-state actors. It argues that fresh new perspectives on human development are now urgently needed to fill critical gaps across borders and entire regions. A positive, forward-looking agenda for the future of global governance would have to engage with new issues such as the Sustainable Development Goals, energy transitions, resource scarcity, and expansion of democratic governance within and between nations. Redefining the overall nature and specific characteristics of what constitutes human progress in an increasingly integrated and interdependent world, this book serves as a primer for scholars and graduate students of international relations and development. It is also relevant to scholars of economics, political science, history, sociology, and women’s studies.

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Basic Research in the Behavioral and Social Sciences
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1988-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309037495

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The Behavioral and Social Sciences by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Basic Research in the Behavioral and Social Sciences Pdf

This volume explores the scientific frontiers and leading edges of research across the fields of anthropology, economics, political science, psychology, sociology, history, business, education, geography, law, and psychiatry, as well as the newer, more specialized areas of artificial intelligence, child development, cognitive science, communications, demography, linguistics, and management and decision science. It includes recommendations concerning new resources, facilities, and programs that may be needed over the next several years to ensure rapid progress and provide a high level of returns to basic research.

Author : Geoffrey Martin Hodgson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415322537

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The Evolution of Institutional Economics by Geoffrey Martin Hodgson Pdf

This exciting new book from Geoffrey Hodgson is eagerly awaited by social scientists from many different backgrounds. This book charts the rise, fall and renewal of institutional economics in the critical, analytical and readable style that Hodgson's fans have come to know and love, and that a new generation of readers will surely come to appreciate.

Author : Stephen K. Sanderson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0847695352

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The Evolution of Human Sociality by Stephen K. Sanderson Pdf

This text attempts a broad theoretical synthesis within the field of sociology and its closely allied sister discipline of anthropology. It draws together these disciplines' theoretical approaches into a synthesized theory called Darwinian conflict theory.

Author : Pursey Heugens,Hans van Oosterhout,Jack J. Vromen
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1781950334

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The Social Institutions of Capitalism by Pursey Heugens,Hans van Oosterhout,Jack J. Vromen Pdf

Offering a diverse set of contributions to current social contracting research, this text illustrates how social contracts necessarily underlie and facilitate all forms of capitalist production and exchange.

Author : Sayyid Matlub Husayn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1025614620

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Evolution of Social Institutions in Islam, During First Century of Hijrah by Sayyid Matlub Husayn Pdf