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

1. publ.

Englisch

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

VIII, 257 S. : graph. Darst.

Literaturverz. S. 225 - 243 und Index

0911

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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.

*Selektionstheorie / Soziologie

*Darwinismus / Soziale Evolution / Auslese / Kulturelle Evolution

*Neodarwinismus / Natürliche Auslese / Soziale Differenzierung

*Darwin, Charles -- 1809-1882

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

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: HM626

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 303.4;

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation: MR 5800: MN-MS Soziologie / MR Sozialwissenschaftliche Theorien und Methoden / MR 5100-MR 5900 Jüngere soziologische Theorie / Theorien des sozio-kulturellen Wandels (Innovation, Modernisierung, Postmoderne)

"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

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