The Dance of Innovation: Infrastructure, Social Oscillation, and the Evolution of Societies by McCaffree, Kevin

The Dance of Innovation: Infrastructure, Social Oscillation, and the Evolution of Societies (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781032209395)

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The Dance of Innovation: Infrastructure, Social Oscillation, and the Evolution of Societies by McCaffree, Kevin

The Dance of Innovation: Infrastructure, Social Oscillation, and the Evolution of Societies

$46.95
The Dance of Innovation: Infrastructure, Social Oscillation, and the Evolution of Societies by McCaffree, Kevin

The Dance of Innovation: Infrastructure, Social Oscillation, and the Evolution of Societies

$46.95
Format: Paperback
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Few of us, amidst our daily chores and responsibilities, consider how mundane infrastructures-from electrical grids to sewage systems-have developed over millennia in ways that enable everything we cherish, from democracy to technological innovation to individual liberty. But what drives the evolution of this infrastructure? And why is infrastructure so critical to human flourishing? In this book, the most innovative and interdisciplinary study of cultural evolution ever produced, new concepts are explored, new histories are brought into contact and new ground-breaking insights are defended. What makes creativity unique in human societies is not only our capacity to generate and modify our diverse individual intuitions about the social and physical world, but also our capacity to form and leave groups fluidly in a dancing rhythm of oscillation across the expanse of history. This book walks the reader carefully through these processes, with clear concepts and an approachable writing style.

Author: Kevin McCaffree
ISBN-10: 1032209399
ISBN-13: 9781032209395
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 06/20/2022
Pages: 10
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.64d
By Kevin McCaffree
By Kevin McCaffree
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Kevin McCaffree is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of North Texas. He is the author or co-author of three books, co-editor of Theoretical Sociology: The Future of a Disciplinary Foundation and series editor (with Jonathan H. Turner) of Evolutionary Analysis in the Social Sciences. In addition to these works, he has authored or co-authored more than 20 peer-reviewed journal articles and handbook chapters published on a variety of topics ranging from cultural evolution to criminology to the sociology of empathy.

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