The new evolutionary social science. Human nature, social behavior, and social change
Titel
The new evolutionary social science. Human nature, social behavior, and social change
AutorInnen
Heinz-Jürgen Niedenzu, Tamás Meleghy, Peter Meyer (Eds.)
Verlag
Paradigm Publishers
Erscheinungsjahr
2008
Erscheinungsort
Boulder; London
Inhalt
For a long period of time, social scientists declared their autonomy from the life sciences, thereby neglecting important biological constraints on human nature. Many sociological theories suggest a nearly complete malleability of patterns of social life. Recently, however, Stephen K. Sanderson’s “Darwinian conflict theory” set out to synthesize sociological theories with key findings from biology into an overarching scientific paradigm.
Configuring and expanding this groundbreaking theory, the contributors to this volume are well-known European and American experts in evolutionary science. They develop in this book new bases for understanding social change and the world’s future through a better integration of the life sciences and social sciences