Author(s): Jonathan H. Turner, Richard S. Machalek
Series: Evolutionary Analysis in the Social Sciences
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2018
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
1 A Brief History of Evolutionary Analysis in Sociology
Part I: The Continuing Sociological Tradition
2 Can Functionalism Be Saved? Toward a More Viable Form of Evolutionary Theorizing
3 Stage-Model Theories of Societal Evolution
4 Intersocietal Models of Societal Evolution
5 New Forms of Ecological Theorizing in Evolutionary Sociology
Part II: Darwinian Analysis and Alternatives
6 The Evolution of Social Behavior by Natural Selection
7 The Rise of Sociobiology
8 Sociobiology and Human Behavior
9 Evolutionary Psychology and the Search for the Adapted Mind
10 The Limitations of Darwinian Analysis
11 New Models of Natural Selection in Sociocultural Evolution
Part III: New Darwinian Approaches Within Sociology
12 New Forms of Comparative Sociology: What Primates Can Tell Sociology About Humans
13 In Search of Human Nature: Using the Tools of Cross-Species Comparative Analysis
14 The Evolution of the Human Brain: Applications of Neurosociology
15 Cross-Species Comparative Sociology
16 Cross-Species Analysis of Megasociality
17 The Behavioral and Interpersonal Basis of Megasociality: Evidence From Primates
Epilogue: Prospect for a New Evolutionary Sociology
Bibliography
Index
