Research Catalog

Title

Biosocial evolutionary analysis : reconciling biology, psychology and sociology / Jonathan H. Turner, 38th University Professor, University of California, Distinguished Professor of the Graduate Divisions, University of California, Riverside, USA, Alexandra Maryanski, Research Professor of the Graduate Division, University of California, Riverside, USA.

Author

Turner, Jonathan H.

Publication

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2024]

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Additional Authors

Maryanski, Alexandra

Description

xii, 269 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"This authoritative book proposes a methodological and theoretical strategy for developing sociological explanations of the socio-cultural universe. Jonathan H. Turner and Alexandra Maryanski discuss the problems that persist in explaining the socio-cultural universe using only biological and psychological approaches and outline new strategies for understanding the evolution of human beings and their biological nature. Through exploring human evolution, human nature, human behaviours and patterns of social organisation, Turner and Maryanski demonstrate that evolutionary explanations of behaviours and patterns can be drawn from modern synthesis in biology. They also explain why certain dimensions of the socio-cultural universe can only be understood using purely sociological approaches to evolutionary analysis. They expertly analyse alternative biologically-based strategies for explaining the evolution of human beings and a purely sociological strategy for understanding the emergent properties of human socio-cultural formations. Innovative in its approach, this timely book will be of great interest to scholars interested in the fields of science and technology studies, sociology and sociological theory, cultural sociology, social psychology, and social policy. It will also be highly beneficial to those looking to better understand the optimum methodological strategies for understanding the biology of human nature"--

Subject

• Sociobiology
• Psychobiology
• Human evolution
• Social evolution

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (229-261) and index.

Contents

On the origins of evolutionary analysis in biology and sociology -- Going back in time: the power of cladistic analysis -- Comparative neuro-anatomy: evolution of the brain from hominin to human -- Decline and revival of evolutionary analysis in the social sciences -- Human behavioral complexes: the biology and sociology of evolved humans -- The emergence of the socio-cultural universe: disentangling levels of reality -- Foundational differences between socio-cultural and biological evolution.

Call Number

JFE 24-982

ISBN

• 9781035309993
• 1035309998
• 9781035310012
• 1035310015

LCCN

2023948660

OCLC

1391326403

Author

Turner, Jonathan H., author.

Title

Biosocial evolutionary analysis : reconciling biology, psychology and sociology / Jonathan H. Turner, 38th University Professor, University of California, Distinguished Professor of the Graduate Divisions, University of California, Riverside, USA, Alexandra Maryanski, Research Professor of the Graduate Division, University of California, Riverside, USA.

Publisher

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2024]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (229-261) and index.

Added Author

Maryanski, Alexandra, author.

Research Call Number

JFE 24-982