Darwinian Sociocultural Evolution: Solutions to Dilemmas in Cultural and Social Theory

di Marion Blute (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 2010

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.

• Autore: Marion Blute
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Anno: 2010
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 250 p.
• Dimensioni: 235 x 160 mm
• Peso: 530 gr.
• EAN: 9780521768931

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