ISBN:
9781612053288
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (591 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Social Change : Globalization from the Stone Age to the Present
DDC:
306.09
Keywords:
Electronic books
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I The Framework; Chapter 1 History and Social Evolution; Science and Objectivity; Humanism and Values; The Comparative Method; Types of Evidence; Sociocultural Evolution; Sociocultural Evolution versus Biological Evolution; Teleology and Unilinear Evolution; Progress and Sociocultural Evolution; Theories of Social Change; Institutional Materialism; Suggested Readings; Chapter 2 The Comparative World-Systems Approach; World-Systems; Spatial Boundaries of World-Systems
Description / Table of Contents:
Core/Periphery RelationsModes of Accumulation; Patterns and Causes of Social Evolution; Suggested Readings; Chapter 3 Biological Bases of Social Evolution; Learning, Sociality, and Culture; Expansion of Emotional Range; From Animal Calls to Human Language; Nonhuman Animal Minds; Animal Minds and Group Size; Grooming Sustains Coalition Formation; From Grooming to Verbal Language; Orders of Intentionality; Emergence of Hypothetical Thinking; Primate Evolution: From Forests to the Savanna; Chimpanzee Material Culture; Bipedalization as an Adaptive Response to Drier, More Open Climates
Description / Table of Contents:
Rewiring the Brain for Social LifeNew Mating Practices; From Prehuman to Protohuman Species; Ardipithecus; Australopithecines; Homo habilis; Homo erectus; Homo neanderthalensis; Visual Communication Predominates among Protohumans; Homo sapiens; Primate Evolution in Review; Suggested Readings; Chapter 4 Building a Social Self: The Macro-Micro Link; The Social-Individual Dialectic; Human Nature; Agents of Socialization; Family; Education; Peers; Mass Media; Religion; The State (Nationalism); Sports; Socializing Mechanisms; Building a Social Self; Layers of Identity; Types of Situations
Description / Table of Contents:
Roles Are Not StaticLearning to Think Abstractly; Role Conflicts; Focused and Unfocused Occasions; Focused Occasions; Unfocused Occasions; Breaches in Public Order; No-Man's-Land; Forms of Repair; Varieties of Selves: Collectivist versus Individualist; Collectivist or Individualist Selves?; The Self and Social Movements; Suggested Readings; Part II Stateless Systems; Chapter 5 World-Systems of Foragers; Expansion and Incorporation; Settlement Systems; Paleolithic Hunter-Gatherers: Cultural and Social Institutions; Sedentary Hunter-Gatherer World-Systems; The Wintu and Their Neighbors
Description / Table of Contents:
Suggested ReadingsChapter 6 The Gardeners; The Biophysical Ecology of Egalitarian Horticulturalists; Material Organization of Neolithic Simple Horticultural Societies; Environmental Psychology of Hunter-Gatherers and Simple Horticulturalists; Places and Territories; Impact of Enclosed Parochial Places: Witchcraft, Hospitality, and Kin Groups; Time and Space; The Self in Hunter-Gatherer and Horticultural Egalitarian Societies: Horizontal Collectivist Selves; From Simple to Complex Horticulture; Hunters Once Again: The Abandonment of Horticulture; Suggested Readings; Chapter 7 The Sacred Chiefs
Description / Table of Contents:
Rise and Fall
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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