| Description |
1 online resource (265 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Intro; Chapter 1 Curiously Parallel; The Nature of Culture; How each member ought to act; Curiously parallel; Certain favoured words: Social Darwinism?; Our only organon3; Nature versus culture?; Caught knapping; Part 1 -- Culture Makes Groups; Chapter 2 Externalism ; Self-creation; Communication creates individuals; Conciliating culture and knowledge: The cultural science approach; The 10 Recommendments9; Linked brains and externalized knowledge; Chapter 3 Demes; The creation of the self; Gallipoli -- The creation of national character |
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Chapter 6 MeaningfulnessWhat evolves?; Something very much like knowledge; Meaning and language; meaningfulness and culture; Knowledge evolves; The cultural evolution of gentlemen (a short but instructive digression); The nature of culture and beyond biosemiotics; Meaningfulness and marriageability; Contesting cultural order; Chapter 7 Newness; The Janus face of culture; The dynamic scale of cultural change; Randomness makes variety; Consciousness makes creativity; Demes make newness; The economic sociology of newness: 'Irritating impact'; Chapter 8 Waste |
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On the efficiency of cultural productionTrillions and trillions; Cultural efficiency; Children and waste; Wasted words?; The childish invention of culture ; Chapter 9 Extinction; Resilience and Ossification; A prosocial groupish animal, honed by conflict and extinction; How to protect valuable things; What is cultural extinction?; Conquest as cooperation ; Rules and ossification; Great cities as generators of semiosis; Complex culture; Outro; Chapter 10 A Natural History of Demic Concentration; The use of culture in society; Implications; A natural history of demic concentration |
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How culture worksAcknowledgements; References; Index |
| Summary |
Cultural Science is a new way of thinking about culture. The book synthesises recent work across different disciplines, setting out a new, evolutionary approach to cultural studies. Engaging with scientific traditions in a way that previous literature has failed to do, it promises to be break new ground in social scientific scholarship |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Culture -- Philosophy
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Knowledge, Sociology of.
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sociology of knowledge.
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Cultural studies.
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Media, information & communication industries.
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Media studies.
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Social Science -- Media Studies.
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Social Science -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Culture -- Philosophy.
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Knowledge, Sociology of.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Potts, Jason, 1972- author.
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| ISBN |
9781849666046 |
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1849666040 |
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9781849666053 |
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1849666059 |
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1849666024 |
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9781849666022 |
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1849666032 |
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9781849666039 |
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