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The theory of cultural and social selection / W. G. Runciman

Runciman, Walter Garrison, 1934-2020

1. publ.

Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 2009

VIII, 257 S. : graph. Darst.

Englisch

Machine generated contents note: Preface; Prologue. The Darwinian legacy; 1. The neo-Darwinian paradigm; 2. Natural selection and evoked behaviour; 3. Cultural selection and acquired behaviour; 4. Social selection and imposed behaviour; 5. Selectionist theory as narrative history; Epilogue. Sociology in a post-Darwinian world.

Literaturverz. S. 225 - 243 und Index

0911

978-0-521-19951-3 ((hbk.) £45.00); 978-0-521-13614-3 ((pbk.) £15.99); 0-521-19951-4 ((hbk.) £45.00); 0-521-13614-8 ((pbk.) £15.99)

2009029185

015351805

OCoLC: 695694707     

OCoLC: 695694707 (aus SWB)     

MR 5800      Ähnliche Literatur

HM626

303.4

Basisklassifikation: 71.41 (Sozialer Wandel)

*Selektionstheorie ; Soziologie      Zum Register

*Darwinismus ; Soziale Evolution ; Auslese ; Kulturelle Evolution      Zum Register

*Neodarwinismus ; Natürliche Auslese ; Soziale Differenzierung      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Darwin, Charles -- 1809-1882

Soziale Evolution ; Soziale Differenzierung ; Natürliche Auslese ; Soziologie ; Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 ; Social evolution ; Sociology ; Natural selection

"In The Theory of Cultural and Social Selection, W. G. Runciman presents an original and wide-ranging account of the fundamental process by which human cultures and societies come to be of the different kinds that they are. Drawing on and extending recent advances in neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory, Runciman argues that collective human behaviour should be analyzed as the acting-out of information transmitted at the three separate but interacting levels of heritable variation and competitive selection - the biological, the cultural, and the social. The implications which this carries for a reformulation of the traditional agenda of comparative and historical sociology are explored with the help of selected examples, and located within the context of current debates about sociological theory and practice. The Theory of Cultural and Social Selection is a succinct and highly imaginative contribution to one of the great intellectual debates of our times, from one of the world's leading social theorists"--Provided by publisher