Evolutionary Approaches in the Behavioral Sciences - Toward a Better Understanding of Human Nature

Klappentext Examines the important post-World War II development in the Behavioral Sciences. This title also examines, discipline by discipline, the history of the evolutionary thrust, leading figures and key literature, the degree of acceptance (or rejection) within each discipline. It discusses the biobehavioral approach on a geographic basis. Zusammenfassung Examines the important post-World War II development in the Behavioral Sciences. This title also examines! discipline by discipline! the history of the evolutionary thrust! leading figures and key literature! the degree of acceptance (or rejection) within each discipline. It discusses the biobehavioral approach on a geographic basis. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword (John C. Wahlke)Anthropology: Anthropology and the Evolutionary Study of Human Behavior (Lee Cronk)Economics: Economics as an Evolutionary Science (Paul Zak and Arthur T. Denzau)History: History and Evolutionary Theory (Carl Degler)International Relations: Evolution in International Relations? From Social Darwinism to Evolutionary Theory in the Study of International Relations (Vincent Falger)Law: The Evolution of Law and Biology (Monika Gruter Morhenn and Margaret Gruter)Philosophy: Darwinism and Philosophy (Michael Ruse and Jean Lachapelle)Political Philosophy: Evolutionary Theory and Political Thought(Joseph Losco)Political Science: Biopolitics in the Year 2000 (Albert Somit and Steven A. Peterson)Psychology: Is Psychology Undergoing a Paradigm Shift? Past! Present! and Future Roles of Evolutionary Psychology (Irwin Silverman and Maryanne L. Fisher)Psychiatry: Neo-Darwinian Theory and Psychiatry (Russell Gardner)Sociology: Darwin and Sociology: Oil and Water (Allan Mazur) 'Biopolitics? Never Heard of It': A Report from Australia (Hiram Caton)A Paradigm Ignored: Biopolitics and Political Science in Eastern Europe (Jerzy Wiatr)The Reception of Sociobiology in German Psychology and Anthropology (Harald A. Euler and Eckart Voland)Personal Observations on the Sociobiology Controversy (Edward O. Wilson)Postlude (Albert Somit and Steven A. Peterson) ...

Product details

• Authors: S. A. Peterson
• Assisted by: Steven A. Peterson (Editor), Albert Somit (Editor), Steven A. Peterson (Editor)
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.04.2001
• EAN: 9780762307692
• ISBN: 978-0-7623-0769-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Advances in Cognition & Educat
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories