Jonathan Turner, Richard Machalek

The New Evolutionary Sociology (eBook, PDF)

Recent and Revitalized Theoretical and Methodological Approaches

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Produktbeschreibung

For decades, evolutionary analysis was overlooked or altogether ignored by sociologists. Fears and biases persisted nearly a century after Comte Auguste 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 470
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351173872
• Artikelnr.: 54059681

Autorenporträt

Jonathan H. Turner is 38th University Professor of the University of California System; Research Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Riverside. He is also Director of the Institute for Theoretical Social Science, Santa Barbara, CA, USA. He is the author of hundreds of research articles and the author of more than 40 distinguished books, including most recently, The New Evolutionary Sociology (with Richard Machalek).

Richard Machalek is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Wyoming. His work addresses the evolution of social behavior among both human and non-human species. He analyzes phenomena such as the evolution of societal complexity among both humans and the eusocial insects, the evolution of expropriative social behaviors across species lines, emergent properties of both human and nonhuman societies, the evolved human psychology implicated in reciprocity and exchange, and theoretical points of convergence and divergence between sociology and sociobiology. His publications have appeared in venues such as Sociological Theory, the American Journal of Sociology, Advances in Group Processes, Rationality and Society, Advances in Human Ecology and various encyclopedias, handbooks, and other edited volumes. He is co-editor (with Jonathan H. Turner and Alexandra Maryanski) of Handbook on Evolution and Society: Toward an Evolutionary Social Science (Routledge).

Inhaltsangabe

1: A Brief History of Evolutionary Analysis in Sociology PART I: THE
CONTINUING SOCIOLOGICAL TRADITION 2: Can Functionalism Be Saved? Toward a
More Viable Form of Evolutionary Theorizing 3: Stage-Model Theories of
Societal Evolution 4: Inter-societal Models of Societal Evolution 5: New
Forms of Ecological Theorizing in Evolutionary Sociology PART II: DARWINIAN
ANALYSIS AND ALTERNATIVES 6: The Evolution of Social Behavior by Natural
Selection 7: The Rise of Sociobiology 8: Sociobiology and Human Behavior 9:
Evolutionary Psychology and the Search for the Adapted Mind 10: The
Limitations of Darwinian Analysis 11: New Models of Natural Selection in
Socio-Cultural Evolution PART III: NEW DARWINIAN APPROACHES WITHIN
SOCIOLOGY 12: New Forms of Comparative Sociology: What Primates Can Tell
Sociology about Humans? 13: In Search of Human Nature: Using the Tools of
Cross-species Comparative Analysis 14: The Evolution of the Human Brain:
Applications of Neurosociology 15: Cross-Species Comparative Sociology 16:
Cross-Species Analysis of Megasociality 17: Behavioral and Interpersonal
Basis of Megasociality: Evidence from Primates Epilogue: Prospect for a
New Evolutionary Sociology Bibliography Index