ISBN:
9781000471243
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (483 pages)
Series Statement:
Evolutionary Analysis in the Social Sciences Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Social institutions
;
Social structure
;
Sociology
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Myth 1: Institutions Are Reifications -- Myth 2: Institutions Are Practices And/or Beliefs -- Myth 3: Institutions Can Be Organizations Or Actors -- Myth 4: Our Biology Is Neither Determining Nor Relevant Today -- Myth 5: Modernity Is Different From Everything Before It -- The Structure of an Institutional Analysis -- Note -- 1 On the Origins of Human Capacities -- Before Humans: Looking Back in Time to the Origins of Homo Sapiens -- Something From Nothing -- The Biological Roots of Institutional Spheres -- Pre-Adaptations and the Evolution of Social Structure and Culture -- (1) Large and Complex Brains -- (2) The Neurological Wiring for Language -- (3) Low Levels of Physical Grooming -- (4) High Levels of Play Among Young -- (5) Community Orientation -- (6) Protracted Life History Characteristics -- Evolved Behavioral Traits and Institutional Systems -- Planet of the Apes -- The Evolved Brain -- Externalizing Structure and Culture -- Final Note On the Anatomy of Humans and Institutional Evolution -- Appendices -- Appendix I: The Elaboration of Human Emotions and Emotional Capacities -- Appendix II: The Five Complexes of Humans' Evolved Nature -- 1. The Evolved Cognitive Complex and Human Nature -- 2. The Evolved Emotions Complex and Human Nature -- 3. The Evolved Psychology Complex and Human Nature -- 4. The Evolved Interaction Complex and Human Nature -- 5. The Evolved Community Complex and Human Nature -- Notes -- 2 Selection as the Force Driving Institutional Evolution -- The Biology and Sociology of Institutional Evolution -- Sources of Selection Pressures and Institutional Evolution -- (1) Problems in Securing Resources -- (2) Ecological Changes in the Environment.
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