ISBN:
9780742525580
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (323 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Human Institutions : A Theory of Societal Evolution
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Social evolution
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
In his newest book, leading social theorist Jonathan H. Turner offers a creative, richly grounded reinterpretation of social evolution
Description / Table of Contents:
Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 Institutional Analysis; The Institutional Domain of Reality; Levels of Social Reality; Sociocultural Structures at the Micro, Meso, and Macro Levels of Reality; Forces Operating at the Micro, Meso, and Macro Levels of Reality; Forces of the Macro Realm; Production; Population; Regulation; Distribution; Reproduction; Forces, Institutions, and Environments; Functional Needs, Human Agency, and Selection Pressures; The Ghosts of Functionalism?; The Critique of Functional Logic; Macrodynamic Forces and Social Selection; Conclusion
Description / Table of Contents:
2 A Theory ofMacrodynamic ForcesPopulation Dynamics; The Law of Population; Settlements and Population; Production and Population; Markets and Population; Corporate Units and Population; Power and Population; Territorial Space and Population; Other Demographic Forces; Production Dynamics; The Law of Production; Population and Production; Technology, Capital, Resources, and Production; Corporate Units and Production; Markets, Money, and Production; Power and Production; Regulation Dynamics; The Law of Regulation; Population Growth and the Consolidation of Power
Description / Table of Contents:
Production, Distribution, and the Consolidation of PowerConsolidation and Centralization of Power; Inequality, Internal Threats, and Centralization of Power; External Threat and Centralization of Power; Distribution Dynamics; The Law of Distribution; Population Size and Distribution; Production and Distribution; Markets and Distribution; Physical Capital and Distribution; Structural Differentiation and Distribution; Reproduction Dynamics; The Law of Reproduction; Population and Reproduction; Production and Reproduction; Market Systems and Reproduction; Power and Reproduction
Description / Table of Contents:
Differentiation and ReproductionForces, Selection, and Institutional Evolution; Conclusion; 3 The Institutional Core; Economy; Selection Pressures and the Economy; Elements of Economic Organization; Kinship; Selection Pressures and Kinshi; Elements of Kinship Organization; Religion; Elements of Religious Organization; Selection Pressures and Religion; Polity; Elements of Political Organization; Selection Pressures and Polity; Law; Elements of Legal Systems; Selection Pressures and Legal Systems; Education; Elements of Educational Systems; Selection Pressures and Education; Conclusion
Description / Table of Contents:
4 Institutional Systems of Hunter-Gatherer PopulationsKinship; Economy; Religion; Polity; Law; Education; Key Institutional Interchanges; Kinship and Economy; Kinship and Religion; Kinship and Polity; Kinship and Law; Kinship and Education; Economy and Religion; Polity and Economy; Conclusion; 5 Institutional Systems of Horticultural Populations; Economy; Kinship; Polity; Kin-based Polities in Simple Horticulture; Advanced Horticulture and the Emergence of the State; Law; Religion; Education; Key Institutional Interchanges; Kinship and Economy; Kinship and Polity; Kinship and Law
Description / Table of Contents:
Kinship and Religion
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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