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Crisis in sociology : the need for Darwin
- Title
- Crisis in sociology : the need for Darwin / Joseph Lopreato, Timothy Crippen.
- Author
- Lopreato, Joseph.
- Publication
- New Brunswick, NJ : Transaction Publishers, [1999], ©1999.
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- Additional Authors
- Crippen, Timothy Alan.
- Description
- xiv, 329 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Crisis in Sociology presents a compelling portrait of sociology's current troubles and proposes a remedy that is likely to inspire controversy. In the authors' view sociology's crisis has deep roots, traceable to the over-ambitious sweep of the discipline's founders.
- Lopreato and Crippen argue that the most disabling flaw is the failure to discover even a single general law or principle necessary to systematically organize empirical observations, guide inquiry by suggesting falsifiable hypotheses, and form the core of a genuinely cumulative body of knowledge.
- Crisis in Sociology invites sociologists to consider that participation in the "new social science," exemplified by thriving new fields such as evolutionary psychology, may help to build a vigorous, scientific sociology.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- Pt. 1. From Early Promise to Deepening Crisis. 1. The Early Promise. 2. The Deepening Crisis. 3. Why the Crisis: A Sketch -- Pt. 2. Elements of Evolutionary Theory. 4. Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection. 5. Elements of Evolutionary Behavioral Science -- Pt. 3. Select Adaptations and Applications. 6. Fundamentals of Sex Differences. 7. An Uneasy Alliance. 8. Fundamentals of Social Stratification. 9. The Clannish Brain.
- ISBN
- 1560003987 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 98050335
- OCLC
- 40433193
- ocm40433193
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries