The New Evolutionary Sociology: Recent and Revitalized Theoretical and Methodological Approaches

by Jonathan H. Turner, Richard S. Machalek, Richard S Machalek

Book Overview

For decades, evolutionary analysis was overlooked or altogether ignored by sociologists. Fears and biases persisted nearly a century after Auguste Comte gave the discipline its name, as did concerns that its effect would only reduce sociology to another discipline - whether biology, psychology, or economics. Worse, apprehension that the application of evolutionary theory would encourage heightened perceptions of racism, sexism, ethnocentrism and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815387083
• ISBN13: 9780815387084
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 470 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"