This book illustrates how fusion-fission cycles actually constitute what we call "culture." Providing specific case studies, including cultural shifts in the 1960s, recurring "moral panics", and nation-formation, the book concludes with general principles of fusion-fission dynamics to help scholars understand this universal phenomenon.
This book illustrates how fusion-fission cycles actually constitute what we call "culture." Providing specific case studies, including cultural shifts in the 1960s, recurring "moral panics", and nation-formation, the book concludes with general principles of fusion-fission dynamics to help scholars understand this universal phenomenon.
Kevin McCaffree is a professor of sociology at the University of North Texas. He is the author or co-author of five books, co-editor of Theoretical Sociology: The Future of a Disciplinary Foundation and series co-editor (with Jonathan H. Turner) of Evolutionary Analysis in the Social Sciences. In addition to these works, he has authored or co-authored numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and handbook chapters on a variety of topics ranging from cultural evolution to criminology to the sociology of empathy.
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Introduction Chapter 1. The Social Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness Chapter 2. "Cultural Evolution," Descriptively Chapter 3. Evolutionary Sociology Chapter 4. Cyclic Theories Chapter 5. Cumulative Cultural Evolution Chapter 6. Memetics Chapter 7. The Evolution of Norms, Values and Identities Chapter 8. Toward an Integration and Theoretical Extension
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Social Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness
Chapter 2. "Cultural Evolution," Descriptively
Chapter 3. Evolutionary Sociology
Chapter 4. Cyclic Theories
Chapter 5. Cumulative Cultural Evolution
Chapter 6. Memetics
Chapter 7. The Evolution of Norms, Values and Identities
Chapter 8. Toward an Integration and Theoretical Extension
