Darwinian Sociocultural Evolution (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521768931)

Social scientists can learn a lot from evolutionary biology - from systematics and principles of evolutionary ecology to theories of social interaction including competition, conflict and cooperation, as well as niche construction, complexity, eco-evo-devo, and the role of the individual in evolutionary processes. Darwinian sociocultural evolutionary theory applies the logic of Darwinism to social-learning based cultural and social change. With a multidisciplinary approach for graduate biologists, philosophers, sociologists, anthropologists, social psychologists, archaeologists, linguists, economists, political scientists and science and technology specialists, the author presents this model of evolution drawing on a number of sophisticated aspects of biological evolutionary theory. The approach brings together a broad and inclusive theoretical framework for understanding the social sciences which addresses many of the dilemmas at their forefront - the relationship between history and necessity, conflict and cooperation, the ideal and the material and the problems of agency, subjectivity and the nature of social structure.
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Author: Marion Blute
ISBN-10: 0521768934
ISBN-13: 9780521768931
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/14/2010
Pages: 250
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d