The Evolution of Human Sociality: A Darwinian Conflict PerspectiveRowman & Littlefield, 2001 - Broj stranica: 393 This book attempts a broad theoretical synthesis within the field of sociology and its closely allied sister discipline of anthropology. It draws together what the author considers the best of these disciplinesO theoretical approaches into a synthesized theory called Darwinian conflict theory. This theory, in the most general sense, is a synthesis of the tradition of economic and ecological materialism and conflict theory stemming from Marx, Marvin Harris, and the tradition of biological materialism deriving from Darwin. The first half of the book is taken up with critiques of existing theoretical approaches; this then leads to the full elaboration, in formal propositional form, of synthetic theory. The second half of the book lays out the large amount of evidence, both qualitative and quantitative, that supports the synthesized theory. |
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Functionalist Explanations | 13 |
Social Constructionist Explanations | 24 |
Structuralist Poststructuralist and Postmodernist Explanations | 41 |
Sociological Explanations That Work Better | 61 |
Marxian Conflict Explanations | 63 |
Weberian Conflict Explanations | 79 |
Sociological Explanations That Work Best | 95 |
Exchange and Rational Choice Explanations | 97 |
Reproductive Behavior | 159 |
Human Sexuality | 175 |
Sex and Gender | 193 |
Marriage Family and Kinship | 213 |
Economic Behavior and Economic Systems | 247 |
Social Hierarchies | 285 |
Politics and War | 306 |
Epilogue | 329 |
Cultural Materialist Explanations | 108 |
Sociobiological Explanations | 118 |
Toward Theoretical Synthesis | 139 |
Darwinian Conflict Theory A Unified Evolutionary Theory of Human Society | 141 |
Darwinian Conflict Theory The Weight of the Evidence | 157 |
References | 332 |
Index | 373 |
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