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Author Wiegele, Thomas C

Title Biology and the Social Sciences : an Emerging Revolution
Published Milton : Routledge, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (400 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; The Contributors; Part 1 Introduction; 1. Is a Revolution Brewing in the Social Sciences?; Part 2 The General Relationship Between Biology and the Social Sciences; Introduction; 2. Bridging the Paradigms: Biology and the Social Sciences; 3. The Concepts of Disciplines and Antidisciplines; 4. The Social Sciences Cannot Be Unified with Biology; Part 3 Anthropology; Introduction; 5. Culture and Sociobiology; 6. Toward a Coevolutionary Theory of Human Biology and Culture
7. Human Behavior and the Behavior of Other Animals8. Anthropology and the Nature of Things; Part 4 Economics; Introduction; 9. Economics As a Not Very Biological Science; 10. Economics from a Biological Viewpoint; Part 5 Political Science; Introduction; 11. Overcoming Pre-Behavioralism in Political Science; 12. Politics as a Biological Phenomenon; 13. Politics as a Life Science: How and Why the Impact of Modern Biology Will Revolutionize the Study of Political Behavior; 14. The Future of Biopolitics; Part 6 Sociology; Introduction; 15. The Decline and Fall of Sociology, 1975-2000
16. Reflections on a Premature Burial17. Sociobiology vs. Biosociology; 18. Sociology and Sociobiology; 19. A Somewhat Sympathetic Response to Ellis; 20. Rejoinder to My Critics; 21. Biological Explanation in Sociology; 22. Sociobiology or Balanced Biosocial Theory?; Part 7 Biology and the Social Sciences: Problems and Questions; Introduction; 23. A Marxist View of Biology and the Social Sciences; 24. Sociobiology as an Adaptationist Program; 25. Methodological Problems Associated with a Biologically Oriented Social Science; Index
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Subject Sociobiology.
Social sciences.
Biology.
Biology
Social Sciences
social sciences.
biology.
Biology
Social sciences
Sociobiology
Biologie
Sozialwissenschaften
Soziobiologie
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780429704512
0429704518
9780429724527
0429724527