Darwinian Sociocultural Evolution - Solutions to Dilemmas in Cultural and Social Theory (Hardcover)

Social scientists can learn a lot from evolutionary biology - from systematics and principles of evolutionary ecology to theories of social interaction including competition, conflict and cooperation, as well as niche construction, complexity, eco-evo-devo, and the role of the individual in evolutionary processes. Darwinian sociocultural evolutionary theory applies the logic of Darwinism to social-learning based cultural and social change. With a multidisciplinary approach for graduate biologists, philosophers, sociologists, anthropologists, social psychologists, archaeologists, linguists, economists, political scientists and science and technology specialists, the author presents this model of evolution drawing on a number of sophisticated aspects of biological evolutionary theory. The approach brings together a broad and inclusive theoretical framework for understanding the social sciences which addresses many of the dilemmas at their forefront - the relationship between history and necessity, conflict and cooperation, the ideal and the material and the problems of agency, subjectivity and the nature of social structure.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2010
First published:	2010
Authors:	Marion Blute
Dimensions:	235 x 160 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	250
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-76893-1
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Evolution Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
LSN:	0-521-76893-4
Barcode:	9780521768931

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