Solutions to Dilemmas in Cultural and Social Theory / [electronic resource] Blute, Marion creator author. text enk 2010 monographic eng

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1 online resource (250 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). Social scientists can learn a lot from evolutionary biology - from systematics and principles of evolutionary ecology to theories of social interaction including competition, conflict and cooperation, as well as niche construction, complexity, eco-evo-devo, and the role of the individual in evolutionary processes. Darwinian sociocultural evolutionary theory applies the logic of Darwinism to social-learning based cultural and social change. With a multidisciplinary approach for graduate biologists, philosophers, sociologists, anthropologists, social psychologists, archaeologists, linguists, economists, political scientists and science and technology specialists, the author presents this model of evolution drawing on a number of sophisticated aspects of biological evolutionary theory. The approach brings together a broad and inclusive theoretical framework for understanding the social sciences which addresses many of the dilemmas at their forefront - the relationship between history and necessity, conflict and cooperation, the ideal and the material and the problems of agency, subjectivity and the nature of social structure. Marion Blute. Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). Social Darwinism Social Darwinism 303.401 9780511804755 (ebook) http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511804755 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511804755 UkCbUP 101021 20180107143411.0 CR9780511804755