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Author Adams, Richard N. (Richard Newbold), 1924-2018, author

Title The eighth day : social evolution as the self-organization of energy / Richard Newbold Adams
Edition 1st ed
Published Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press, 1988

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 292 pages) : illustrations
Contents Preface; Introduction; 1. Preliminaries; Principles and Explanations; Anthropological Antecedents; Monism and Materialism; Studies of Energy and Society; 2. Energy Process; Energy Forms; Equilibrium and Dissipative Structures; Stability and Steady States; Appendix: Note on Odum's Energy Quality -- 3. Energy Dynamics; The Laws of Thermodynamics; Lotka's Principle; Minimum Dissipation Principle; Trigger-Flow Mechanisms and Principles; 4. Self-Organization; Introduction; Equilibrium Bases of Self-Organization; Autopoiesis; Perturbations; Self-Triggering
Appendix: Order and Functional Organization5. Culture; Mental Self-Organization; Informational Dynamics; Cultural Process; Appendix: Energy and Values; 6. Domestication; Domestication? Why Bother?; Ecological and Human Controls; Human Dominance, Culture, and Power; Indigenous California Society; The Emergence of Social Hierarchies; Political and Ideological Implications; Notes; 7. Natural Selection; The Broader Issue; In Equilibrium Structures; Self-Organization of Dissipative Structures; Selection and Epistemology; 8. Boundary Dynamics; Social Boundaries; Energetic Boundaries
Environments and Closure9. Civilization; The Meaning of Civilization -- Civilization as a Trigger; The Origins and Future of Civilization; Notes; 10. Humanities; The Classics; Free-Floating Triggers; 11. Expansion in Social Hierarchy: A Model; Social Survival Vehicles and Coaxal Structures; Novel and Secondary Constructions; The Emergence of Hierarchy: Work and Regulation; 12. Energy and Industrialization; Modeling Industrialization Expansion; The Energy Sector Model; Interactive Changes among Sectors; Expansion of the Regulatory Sector; Notes
Postscript. Development and Contemporary Social EvolutionReferences; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-279) and index
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Subject Social evolution.
Force and energy.
Self-organizing systems.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Physical.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
Force and energy.
Self-organizing systems.
Social evolution.
Évolution sociale.
Énergie.
Systèmes auto-organisés.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780292736429
0292736428