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Toward a Biosocial Science - Evolutionary Theory, Human Nature, and Social Life (Hardcover)
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Toward a Biosocial Science - Evolutionary Theory, Human Nature, and Social Life (Hardcover)
Series: Evolutionary Analysis in the Social Sciences
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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 discipline into marginality.
This book takes its place in a rich tradition of efforts to
integrate sociological thinking into the world of the biological
sciences that can be traced to the origins of the discipline, and
that took on modern form beginning a generation ago in the works of
thinkers such as E.O. Wilson, Richard Alexander, Joseph Lopreato,
and Richard Machalek. It offers an accessible introduction to
rethinking sociological science in consonance with these
contemporary biological revolutions. From the standpoint of a
biosociology rooted in the single most important scientific theory
touching on human life, the Darwinian theory of natural selection,
the book sketches an evolutionary social science that would enable
us to properly attend to basic questions of human nature, human
behavior, and human social organization. Individual chapters take
on such topics as: The roots and nature of human sociality; the
origins of morality in human social life and an evolutionary
perspective on human interests, reciprocity, and altruism; the sex
difference in our species and what it contributes to an explanation
of sociological facts; the nature of stratification, status, and
inequality in human evolutionary history; the question of race in
our species; and the contribution evolutionary theory makes to
explaining the origins and the importance of culture in human
societies.
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