Evolutionary Theory in the Social Sciences

Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-415-24716-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 1272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 2404 g

Evolution Theory in the Social Sciences is the first collection of its kind to give a coherent historical account of the evolution of evolutionary thought and includes the most innovative and insightful works on the subject, from its very beginnings through to contemporary debates. The selections begin in the nineteenth century with Darwin and Malthus and then follows the variegated story of social evolutionary thought through to the beginning of the 21st Century, including key works by Marx, Veblen and Kropotkin as well as other less well known contributions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dugger, William M.

Dugger, William M

Sherman, Howard J

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Volume I: Early Foundations and Later Contributions

General Introduction and Introduction to Volume I by William M. Dugger

Part I: Some Founding Fathers

1. Thomas Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population, 1798 (An excerpt from chapter 1)

2. Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, 1859 (An excerpt from the Introduction and another from the Conclusion)

3. Peter Kropotkin, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, pp. vii-xvii, 1-10, 50-91, 115-137, 149-186, 216-228, 259-261, 293-300, 1902

Part II: Later Contributors-Human Nature

4. Richard Levins and Richard Lewontin, 'What Is Human Nature?', in The Dialectical Biologist, pp. 253-65, 1985

5. Hans E. Jensen, 'The Theory of Human Nature,' in Journal of Economic Issues, 21, 3, pp. 1039-73, 1987

Part III: Later Contributors-Multilinear Evolution and Institutional Evolution

6. Julian H. Steward, 'Multilinear Evolution', in Theory of Culture Change: The Methodology of Multilinear Evolution, pp. 11-29, 1955

7. Walter C. Neale, 'Institutions,' in Journal of Economic Issues, pp. 1177-1190, 1192-1206, 1987

8. Daniel R. Fusfeld, 'The Development of Economic Institutions,' in Journal of Economic Issues, 11, 4, pp. 743-83, 1977

Part IV: A Troubling Thought

9. Warren S. Gramm, 'Natural Selection in Economic Thought: Ideology, Power, and the Keynesian Counterrevolution,' in Journal of Economic Issues, 7, 1, pp. 1-27, 1973

Volume II: Evolutionary Social Science

Introduction by William M. Dugger

Part I: Thorstein Veblen's Evolutionary Social Science

10. Thorstein Veblen, 'The Evolution of the Scientific Point of View', in The Place of Science in Modern Civilization and Other Essays, pp. 32-55, 1919

11. Thorstein Veblen, 'The Preconceptions of Economic Science', in The Place of Science in Modern Civilization and Other Essays, pp. 82-179, 1919

12. Michael Boyles and Rick Tilman, 'Thorstein Veblen, Edward O. Wilson, and Sociobiology: An Interpretation', Journal of Economic Issues, 28, 4, pp. 1195-1218 (December, 1993)

13. William M. Dugger, 'Veblen and Kropotkin on Human Evolution', Journal of Economic Issues, 18, 4, pp. 971-85 (December, 1984)

Part II: Further Contributions to Evolutionary Social Science

14. David Hamilton, Newtonian Classicism and Darwinian Institutionalism: A Study of Evolutionary Change, pp. 13-138, 1953

15. Geoffrey M. Hodgson, 'Economic Evolution: A Preliminary Taxonomy', in Economics and Evolution: Bringing Life Back into Economics, pp. 37-51, 1996

16. Geoffrey M. Hodgson, 'Economic Evolution: Intervention Contra Pangloss', Journal of Economic Issues, 25, 2, pp. 519-33 (June, 1991)

17. John M. Gowdy, 'Evolutionary Theory and Economic Theory: Some Methodological Issues', Review of Social Economy, 43, 3, pp. 316-24 (December, 1985)

18. Philip Mirowski, 'An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change: A Review Article', Journal of Economic Issues, 17, 3, pp. 757-68 (September, 1983)

19. C. E. Ayres, 'Ideological Responsibility', Journal of Economic Issues, 1, 1 and 2, pp. 3-11 (June, 1967)

Volume III: Evolution and Revolution

Introduction By Howard J. Sherman

Part I: Evolution of Evolutionary Thought

20. Frederick Engels, Dialectics of Nature, pp. 1-18, originally published 1798, 1940 translation by Clemens Dutt

21. John Bellamy Foster, 'The Materialist Conception of Nature', Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature, pp. 21-31, 2000

Part II: Evolution of Property and Productive Relations

22. Howard J. Sherman, 'Contributions of Engels and Childe,'

23. Jared Diamond, 'Farmer Power' and 'From Egalitarianism to Kle

Über Autor(innen)

William M Dugger, Howard J Sherman