TY - BOOK ID - 80822229 TI - Darwinian sociocultural evolution : solutions to dilemmas in cultural and social theory PY - 2010 SN - 9780511804755 9780521768931 9780521745956 9781139041959 1139041959 051180475X 0521768934 0521745950 113903572X 1107209315 1283053861 9786613053862 1139041185 1139044583 1139038044 1139040405 9781107209312 9781283053860 6613053864 9781139041188 9781139044585 9781139038041 9781139040402 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Social Darwinism. KW - Evolution (Biology) KW - Animal evolution KW - Animals KW - Biological evolution KW - Darwinism KW - Evolutionary biology KW - Evolutionary science KW - Origin of species KW - Biology KW - Evolution KW - Biological fitness KW - Homoplasy KW - Natural selection KW - Phylogeny KW - Darwinism, Social KW - Competition KW - Social change KW - Social conflict KW - Social evolution KW - Life Sciences KW - General and Others UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80822229 AB - 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. ER -