The New Evolutionary Sociology: Recent And Revitalized Theoretical And Methodological Approaches (Evolutionary Analysis In The Social Sciences)

A brief history of evolutionary analysis in sociology -- The continuing sociological tradition -- Can functionalism be saved? : toward a more viable form of evolutionary thinking -- Stage-model theories of societal evolution -- Inter-societal models of societal evolution -- New forms of ecological theorizing in evolutionary sociology -- Darwinian analysis and alternatives -- The evolution of social behavior by natural selection -- The rise of sociobiology -- Sociobiology and human behavior -- Evolutionary psychology and the search for the adapted mind -- The limitations of darwinian analysis -- New models of natural selection in socio-cultural evolution -- New darwinian approaches within sociology -- New forms of comparative sociology : what primates can tell sociology about humans? -- In search of human nature : using the tools of cross-species comparative analysis -- The evolution of the human brain: applications of neurosociology -- Cross-species comparative sociology -- Cross-species analysis of megasociality -- Behavioral and interpersonal basis of megasociality : evidence from primates -- Epilogue: prospect for a new evolutionary sociology -- Bibliography -- Index

• | Author: Jonathan H. Turner|Richard Machalek
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Mar 19, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 470 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0815387083
• | ISBN-13: 9780815387084