Evolutionary Analysis in the Social Sciences – serie
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On Human Nature
The Biology and Sociology of What Made Us Human
Häftad, 2020
648 kr
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In this book, Jonathan H. Turner combines sociology, evolutionary biology, cladistic analysis from biology, and comparative neuroanatomy to examine human nature as inherited from common ancestors shared by humans and present-day great apes. Selection pressures altered this inherited legacy for the …
On Human Nature
The Biology and Sociology of What Made Us Human
Inbunden, 2020
3066 kr
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In this book, Jonathan H. Turner combines sociology, evolutionary biology, cladistic analysis from biology, and comparative neuroanatomy to examine human nature as inherited from common ancestors shared by humans and present-day great apes. Selection pressures altered this inherited legacy for the …
Toward a Biosocial Science
Evolutionary Theory, Human Nature, and Social Life
Häftad, 2021
590 kr
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Sociology is in crisis. While other disciplines have taken on board the revolutionary discoveries driven by evolutionary biology and psychology, genomics and behavioral genetics, and the neurosciences, sociology has ignored these advances and embraced a biophobia that threatens to drive the …
Toward a Biosocial Science
Evolutionary Theory, Human Nature, and Social Life
Inbunden, 2021
2134 kr
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Sociology is in crisis. While other disciplines have taken on board the revolutionary discoveries driven by evolutionary biology and psychology, genomics and behavioral genetics, and the neurosciences, sociology has ignored these advances and embraced a biophobia that threatens to drive the …
New Evolutionary Sociology
Recent and Revitalized Theoretical and Methodological Approaches
Av Jonathan Turner, Richard Machalek
Inbunden, 2018
3431 kr
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For decades, evolutionary analysis was overlooked or altogether ignored by sociologists. Fears and biases persisted nearly a century after Auguste Comte gave the discipline its name, as did concerns that its effect would only reduce sociology to another discipline – whether biology, psychology, or …
New Evolutionary Sociology
Recent and Revitalized Theoretical and Methodological Approaches
Av Jonathan Turner, Richard Machalek
Häftad, 2018
808 kr
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For decades, evolutionary analysis was overlooked or altogether ignored by sociologists. Fears and biases persisted nearly a century after Auguste Comte gave the discipline its name, as did concerns that its effect would only reduce sociology to another discipline – whether biology, psychology, or …
Cultural Evolution
The Empirical and Theoretical Landscape
Häftad, 2022
618 kr
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Since the dawn of social science, theorists have debated how and why societies appear to change, develop and evolve. Today, this question is pursued by scholars across many different disciplines and our understanding of these dynamics has grown markedly. Yet, there remain important areas of …
Cultural Evolution
The Empirical and Theoretical Landscape
Inbunden, 2022
2510 kr
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Since the dawn of social science, theorists have debated how and why societies appear to change, develop and evolve. Today, this question is pursued by scholars across many different disciplines and our understanding of these dynamics has grown markedly. Yet, there remain important areas of …
First Institutional Spheres in Human Societies
Evolution and Adaptations from Foraging to the Threshold of Modernity
Av Seth Abrutyn, Jonathan Turner
Häftad, 2022
706 kr
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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 …
First Institutional Spheres in Human Societies
Evolution and Adaptations from Foraging to the Threshold of Modernity
Av Seth Abrutyn, Jonathan Turner
Inbunden, 2022
2510 kr
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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 …
Dance of Innovation
Infrastructure, Social Oscillation, and the Evolution of Societies
Häftad, 2022
618 kr
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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 …
Dance of Innovation
Infrastructure, Social Oscillation, and the Evolution of Societies
Inbunden, 2022
2510 kr
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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 …
Not So Weird After All
The Changing Relationship Between Status and Fertility
Av Rosemary L. Hopcroft, Martin Fieder m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
2510 kr
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This is the first book to fully examine, from an evolutionary point of view, the association of social status and fertility in human societies before, during, and after the demographic transition. In most nonhuman social species, social status or relative rank in a social group is positively …
Not So Weird After All
The Changing Relationship Between Status and Fertility
Av Rosemary L. Hopcroft, Martin Fieder m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
604 kr
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This is the first book to fully examine, from an evolutionary point of view, the association of social status and fertility in human societies before, during, and after the demographic transition. In most nonhuman social species, social status or relative rank in a social group is positively …
Emergence and Evolution of Religion
By Means of Natural Selection
Av Jonathan Turner, Alexandra Maryanski m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
3063 kr
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Written by leading theorists and empirical researchers, this book presents new ways of addressing the old question: Why did religion first emerge and then continue to evolve in all human societies? The authors of the book—each with a different background across the social sciences and …
Emergence and Evolution of Religion
By Means of Natural Selection
Av Jonathan Turner, Alexandra Maryanski m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
633 kr
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Written by leading theorists and empirical researchers, this book presents new ways of addressing the old question: Why did religion first emerge and then continue to evolve in all human societies? The authors of the book—each with a different background across the social sciences and …
Mechanistic Criminology
Av K. Ryan Proctor, Richard E. Niemeyer
Inbunden, 2019
3063 kr
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The science of criminology is at a crossroads. Despite accumulating a dizzying array of facts about crime, the field has yet to identify a body of theories that allows for the adequate prediction, explanation, and control of phenomena of central interest to criminologists. Mechanistic Criminology …
Mechanistic Criminology
Av K. Ryan Proctor, Richard E. Niemeyer
Häftad, 2019
866 kr
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The science of criminology is at a crossroads. Despite accumulating a dizzying array of facts about crime, the field has yet to identify a body of theories that allows for the adequate prediction, explanation, and control of phenomena of central interest to criminologists. Mechanistic Criminology …
