Complexities - Beyond Nature and Nurture

Klappentext Recent years have seen a growing impetus to explain social life almost exclusively in biological and mechanistic terms! and to dismiss cultural meaning and difference. Daily we read assertions that everything from disease to morality--not to mention the presumed characteristics of race! gender! and sexuality--can be explained by reference primarily to genetics and our evolutionary past.Complexities mobilizes experts from several fields of anthropology--cultural! archaeological! linguistic! and biological--to offer a compelling challenge to the resurgence of reductive theories of human biological and social life. This book presents evidence to contest such theories and to provide a multifaceted account of the complexity and variability of the human condition. Charting a course that moves beyond any simple opposition between nature and nurture! "Complexities" argues that a nonreductive perspective has important implications for how we understand and develop human potential. Zusammenfassung Recent years have seen a growing impetus to explain social life almost exclusively in biological and mechanistic terms! and to dismiss cultural meaning and difference.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Susan Mckinnon, Susan (EDT)/ Silverman McKinnon, Susan Silverman Mckinnon, MCKINNON SUSAN SILVERMAN SYDEL
• Con la collaborazione di: Susan Mckinnon (Editore), McKinnon Susan (Editore), Sydel Silverman (Editore), Silverman Sydel (Editore)
• Editore: University Of Chicago Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.06.2005
• EAN: 9780226500249
• ISBN: 978-0-226-50024-9
• Pagine: 296
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Categorie: Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Politica; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia; Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory