TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blute,Marion
TI  - Darwinian Sociocultural Evolution: Solutions to Dilemmas in Cultural and Social Theory 
SN  - 9780511804755 (ebook)
U1  - 303.401 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Social Darwinism
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016)
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511804755
ER  -