Theory of Cultural and Social Selection

Informationen zum Autor W. G. Runciman has been a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge since 1971 and of the British Academy, as whose President he served from 2001–2004, since 1975. He holds honorary degrees from the Universities of Edinburgh, London, Oxford and York. He is an Honorary Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Klappentext A succinct and highly imaginative contribution to one of the great intellectual debates of our times. Zusammenfassung W. G. Runciman assesses the fundamental processes by which different human cultures and societies come to be the way they are. This is a succinct and highly imaginative contribution to one of the great intellectual debates of our times! from one of the world's leading social theorists. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Prologue. The Darwinian legacy; 1. The neo-Darwinian paradigm; 2. Natural selection and evoked behaviour; 3. Cultural selection and acquired behaviour; 4. Social selection and imposed behaviour; 5. Selectionist theory as narrative history; Epilogue. Sociology in a post-Darwinian world.

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• Autori: W. G. Runciman, W. G. (University of Cambridge) Runciman, Walter Garrison Runciman, Runciman W. G.
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 05.11.2009
• EAN: 9780521136143
• ISBN: 978-0-521-13614-3
• Pagine: 266
• Categorie: Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Biografie, autobiografie; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Social Theory, Evolution, Anthropology, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology