Evolutionism and Its Critics

Deconstructing and Reconstructing an Evolutionary Interpretation of Human Society
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-59451-301-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 708 g

Evolutionism and Its Critics is a critical history of evolutionary theories in the social sciences and a defense of them against their many critics. Sanderson deconstructs not only the wide array of social evolutionary theories, but the criticisms of the antievolutionists. Deconstructing evolutionary theories means laying bare their fundamental epistemological, methodological, conceptual, and theoretical assumptions and principles. Deconstructing antievolutionism means showing just where and how the critics have, for the most part, gone wrong. But Evolutionism and Its Critics aims to reconstruct as well as deconstruct and does this by building on the shoulders of past giants of evolutionary theorizing a comprehensive evolutionary interpretation of human society based on abundant scientific and historical evidence.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sanderson, Stephen K.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 The Nature of Social Evolutionism; Chapter 2 Classical Evolutionism: I; Chapter 3 The Antievolutionary Reaction; Chapter 4 Marxism as Evolutionism; Chapter 5 Classical Evolutionism: II; Chapter 6 The Evolutionary Revival; Chapter 7 Sociological Evolutionism: I; Chapter 8 Anthropological Evolutionism Since 1960; Chapter 9 Sociological Evolutionism: II; Chapter 10 Evolutionary Biology and Social Evolutionism; Chapter 11 Contemporary Antievolutionism; Chapter 12 Evolutionary Materialism: A General Theory of Social Evolution; Epilogue Explaining the Ebb and Flow of Evolutionary Theorizing;

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen K. Sanderson