Human Nature And The Evolution Of Society
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Author |
: Stephen Sanderson |
Publisher |
: Westview Press |
Total Pages |
: 466 |
Release |
: 2014-02-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813349367 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0813349362 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis Human Nature and the Evolution of Society by : Stephen Sanderson
Drawing on evolutionary psychology, sociobiology, and human behavioral ecology, this introduction to human behavior and the organization of social life explores the evolutionary dynamics underlying social life.
Author |
: Alexandra Maryanski |
Publisher |
: Stanford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 1992 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0804720029 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780804720021 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Social Cage by : Alexandra Maryanski
The authors assert that traditional sociological theories of human nature and society do not pay sufficient attention to the evolution of "big-brained hominoids," resulting in assumptions about humans' propensity for "groupness" that go against the record of primate evolution. When this record is analyzed in detail, and is supplemented by a review of the social structures of contemporary apes and the basic types of human societies (hunter-gathering, horticultural, agrarian, and industrial), commonplace criticisms about the de-humanizing effects of industrial society appear overdrawn, if not downright incorrect. The book concludes that the mistakes in contemporary social theory - as well as much of general social commentary - stem from a failure to analyze humans as "big-brained" apes with certain phylogenetic tendencies. This failure is usually coupled with a willingness to romanticize societies of the past, notably horticultural and agrarian systems
Author |
: Stephen K. Sanderson |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 330 |
Release |
: 2018-05-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780429979590 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0429979592 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Human Nature and the Evolution of Society by : Stephen K. Sanderson
If evolution has changed humans physically, has it also affected human behavior? Drawing on evolutionary psychology, sociobiology, and human behavioral ecology, Human Nature and the Evolution of Society explores the evolutionary dynamics underlying social life. In this introduction to human behavior and the organization of social life, Stephen K. Sanderson discusses traditional subjects like mating behavior, kinship, parenthood, status-seeking, and violence, as well as important topics seldom included in books of this type, especially gender, economies, politics, foodways, race and ethnicity, and the arts. Examples and research on a wide range of human societies, both industrial and nonindustrial, are integrated throughout. With chapter summaries of key points, thoughtful discussion questions, and important terms defined within the text, the result is a broad-ranging and comprehensive consideration of human society, thoroughly grounded in an evolutionary perspective.
Author |
: Harry Smit |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 241 |
Release |
: 2014-04-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107055193 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107055199 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Social Evolution of Human Nature by : Harry Smit
Harry Smit examines the elements of current evolutionary theory and how they bear on the evolution of the human mind.
Author |
: Carel van Schaik |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 482 |
Release |
: 2016-05-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780465074709 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0465074707 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Good Book of Human Nature by : Carel van Schaik
"In The Good Book of Human Nature, evolutionary anthropologist Carel van Schaik and historian Kai Michel advance a new view of Homo sapiens' cultural evolution. The Bible, they argue, was written to make sense of the single greatest change in history: the transition from egalitarian hunter-gatherer to agricultural societies. Religion arose as a strategy to cope with the unprecedented levels of epidemic disease, violence, inequality, and injustice that confronted us when we abandoned the bush--and which still confront us today, "--Amazon.com.
Author |
: Charles Horton Cooley |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 562 |
Release |
: 1902 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105010230212 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Human Nature and the Social Order by : Charles Horton Cooley
Author |
: Jonathan H. Turner |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 234 |
Release |
: 2020-11-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000213751 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000213757 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis On Human Nature by : Jonathan H. Turner
In this book, Jonathan H. Turner combines sociology, evolutionary biology, cladistic analysis from biology, and comparative neuroanatomy to examine human nature as inherited from common ancestors shared by humans and present-day great apes. Selection pressures altered this inherited legacy for the ancestors of humans—termed hominins for being bipedal—and forced greater organization than extant great apes when the hominins moved into open-country terrestrial habitats. The effects of these selection pressures increased hominin ancestors’ emotional capacities through greater social and group orientation. This shift, in turn, enabled further selection for a larger brain, articulated speech, and culture along the human line. Turner elaborates human nature as a series of overlapping complexes that are the outcome of the inherited legacy of great apes being fed through the transforming effects of a larger brain, speech, and culture. These complexes, he shows, can be understood as the cognitive complex, the psychological complex, the emotions complex, the interaction complex, and the community complex.
Author |
: Peter Corning |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 253 |
Release |
: 2011-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226116273 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226116271 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Fair Society by : Peter Corning
We've been told, again and again, that life is unfair. But what if we're wrong simply to resign ourselves to this situation? Drawing on the evidence from our evolutionary history and the emergent science of human nature, this title shows that we have an innate sense of fairness.
Author |
: Ron Vannelli |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 2012-12-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781461515456 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1461515459 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Evolutionary Theory and Human Nature by : Ron Vannelli
Evolutionary Theory and Human Nature is an original, highly theoretical work dealing with the transition from genes to behavior using general principles of evolution, especially those of sexual selection. It seeks to develop a seamless transition from genes to human motivations as bio-electric brain processes (emotional-cognitive processes), to human nature propensities (various constellations of emotional-cognitive forces, desires and fears) to species typical patterns of behavior. This work covers two often antagonistic fields: biology and the social sciences. It should be of strong interest to anthropologists, sociologists, sociobiologists, psychobiologists and psychologists who are interested in the question of human nature influences on social behavior.
Author |
: Steven Pinker |
Publisher |
: Penguin Books |
Total Pages |
: 834 |
Release |
: 2012-09-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780143122012 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0143122010 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Better Angels of Our Nature by : Steven Pinker
Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think this is the most violent age ever seen. Yet as bestselling author Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true.