A Sociology of Humankind
How We Are Formed by Culture, Cooperation, and Conflict
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:13th Mar '24
£35.99
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Based upon the interdependencies of human beings as we cooperate and conflict with each other, how we share information, and how culture evolves, this book proposes a sociology of humanity covering three hundred millennia. Grounded in empirical findings from archaeology, history, lab experiments, and field studies – supplemented for precision with computational network models of cultural evolution, cooperation, influence, cohesion, warfare, power, social balance, and inequality – this is the first attempt at encompassing sociology of humankind. Informed by the theory of cultural evolution, it extends the notion that cultural evolution connects humans of all times in a giant sociocultural network, thereby yielding coherence between a great many empirical findings. It will therefore appeal to scholars of sociology and anthropology with interests in historical sociology, cultural evolution, and social theory.
'An elegant, condensed theoretical model, with a synthesis of far-flung research literatures and advanced simulation models.' – Randall Collins, Professor Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania, USA, and author of Charisma: Micro-sociology of Power and Influence
'Foragers are theoretically very important as so much of our evolutionary history is represented by people we call foragers. The author has done his homework very well on foragers. They are commonly treated by non-specialists in a simplistic way and that is emphatically not the case here.' - Peter J. Richerson, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of California Davis, USA
'An elegant, condensed theoretical model, with a synthesis of far-flung research literatures and advanced simulation models.' – Randall Collins, Professor Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania, USA, and author of Charisma: Micro-sociology of Power and Influence
'Foragers are theoretically very important as so much of our evolutionary history is represented by people we call foragers. The author has done his homework very well on foragers. They are commonly treated by non-specialists in a simplistic way and that is emphatically not the case here.' - Peter J. Richerson, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of California Davis, USA
ISBN: 9781032608679
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 440g
228 pages