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"Handbook on Evolution and Society" brings together original
chapters by prominent scholars who have been instrumental in the
revival of evolutionary theorizing and research in the social
sciences over the last twenty-five years. Previously unpublished
essays provide up-to-date, critical surveys of recent research and
key debates. The contributors discuss early challenges posed by
sociobiology, the rise of evolutionary psychology, the more
conflicted response of evolutionary sociology to sociobiology, and
evolutionary psychology. Chapters address the application and
limitations of Darwinian ideas in the social sciences. Prominent
authors come from a variety of disciplines in ecology, biology,
primatology, psychology, sociology, and the humanities. The most
comprehensive resource available, this vital collection
demonstrates to scholars and students the new ways in which
evolutionary approaches, ultimately derived from biology, are
influencing the diverse social sciences and humanities.
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 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.
Handbook on Evolution and Society brings together original chapters
by prominent scholars who have been instrumental in the revival of
evolutionary theorizing and research in the social sciences over
the last twenty-five years. Previously unpublished essays provide
up-to-date, critical surveys of recent research and key debates.
The contributors discuss early challenges posed by sociobiology,
the rise of evolutionary psychology, the more conflicted response
of evolutionary sociology to sociobiology, and evolutionary
psychology. Chapters address the application and limitations of
Darwinian ideas in the social sciences. Prominent authors come from
a variety of disciplines in ecology, biology, primatology,
psychology, sociology, and the humanities. The most comprehensive
resource available, this vital collection demonstrates to scholars
and students the new ways in which evolutionary approaches,
ultimately derived from biology, are influencing the diverse social
sciences and humanities.
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 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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