This book contains an overview of research on the interaction of biological and sociological processes. Issues explored include: the origins of social solidarity; religious beliefs; sex differences; gender inequality; human happiness; social stratification and inequality; identity, status, and other group processes; race, ethnicity, and discrimination; fertility and family processes; crime and deviance; cultural and social change.
This book contains an overview of research on the interaction of biological and sociological processes. Issues explored include: the origins of social solidarity; religious beliefs; sex differences; gender inequality; human happiness; social stratification and inequality; identity, status, and other group processes; race, ethnicity, and discrimination; fertility and family processes; crime and deviance; cultural and social change.
Rosemary L. Hopcroft is Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She has published widely in the areas of evolutionary sociology and comparative and historical sociology, in journals that include the American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Evolution and Human Behavior, and Human Nature. She is the author of Evolution and Gender: Why It Matters for Contemporary Life, Routledge 2016).
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* Part I: Introduction * 1. Introduction: Evolution, Biology, and Society * Rosemary L. Hopcroft * 2. Divergence and Possible Consilience between Evolutionary Biology and Sociology * Richard Machalek * 3. Sociology's Contentious Courtship with Biology: A Ballad * Douglas A. Marshall * 4. Edward Westermarck: The First Sociobiologist * Stephen K. Sanderson * Part II: Social Psychological Approaches * 5. Discovering Human Nature through Cross-Species Analysis * Jonathan H. Turner * 6. The Neurology of Religion: An Explanation from Evolutionary Sociology * Alexandra Maryanski and Jonathan H. Turner * 7. Reward Allowances and Contrast Effects in Social Evolution: A Challenge to Zygmunt Bauman's Liquid Modernity * Michael Hammond * 8. Sex Differences in the Human Brain * David D. Franks * 9. The Savanna Theory of Happiness * Satoshi Kanazawa and Norman P. Li * 10. How Evolutionary Psychology Can Contribute to Group Process Research * Joseph M. Whitmeyer * Part III: Biosociological Approaches * 11. The Genetics of Human Behavior: A Hopeless Opus? * Colter Mitchell * 12. DNA is Not Destiny * Rose McDermott and Peter K. Hatemi * 13. On the Genetic and Genomic Basis of Aggression, Violence, and Antisocial Behavior * Kevin M. Beaver, Eric J. Connolly, Joseph L. Nedelec, and Joseph A. Schwartz * 14. Genetics and Politics: A Review for the Social Scientist * Adam Lockyer and Peter K. Hatemi * 15. Genes and Status Achievement * François Nielsen * 16. Peer Networks, Psychobiology of Stress Response, and Adolescent Development * Olga Kornienko and Douglas A. Granger * 17. Stress and Stress Hormones * Jeff Davis and Kristen Damron * 18. Social Epigenetics of Human Behavior * Daniel E. Adkins, Kelli M. Rasmussen, and Anna R. Docherty * 19. Physiology of Face-to-face Competition * Allan Mazur * Part IV: Evolutionary Approaches * 20. Evolutionary Behavioral Science: Core Principles, Common Misconceptions, and a Troubling Tendency * Timothy Crippen * 21. Evolutionary Family Sociology * Anna Rotkirch * 22. Evolution and Human Reproduction * Martin Fieder and Susanne Huber * 23. Evolution, Societal Sexism, and Universal Average Sex Differences in Cognition and Behavior * Lee Ellis * 24. Evolutionary Theory and Criminology * Anthony Walsh and Cody Jorgensen * 25. The Biosocial Study of Ethnicity * Frank Salter * 26. Human Sociosexual Dominance Theory * Kristin Liv Rauch and Rosemary L. Hopcroft * Part V: Sociocultural Evolution * 27. From Paganism to World Transcendence: Religious Attachment Theory and the Evolution of the World Religions * Stephen K. Sanderson * 28. The Evolutionary Approach to History: Sociocultural Phylogenetics * Marion Blute and Fiona Jordan * Part VI: Conclusion * 29. Why Sociology Should Incorporate Biology * Rosemary L. Hopcroft
* Part I: Introduction * 1. Introduction: Evolution, Biology, and Society * Rosemary L. Hopcroft * 2. Divergence and Possible Consilience between Evolutionary Biology and Sociology * Richard Machalek * 3. Sociology's Contentious Courtship with Biology: A Ballad * Douglas A. Marshall * 4. Edward Westermarck: The First Sociobiologist * Stephen K. Sanderson * Part II: Social Psychological Approaches * 5. Discovering Human Nature through Cross-Species Analysis * Jonathan H. Turner * 6. The Neurology of Religion: An Explanation from Evolutionary Sociology * Alexandra Maryanski and Jonathan H. Turner * 7. Reward Allowances and Contrast Effects in Social Evolution: A Challenge to Zygmunt Bauman's Liquid Modernity * Michael Hammond * 8. Sex Differences in the Human Brain * David D. Franks * 9. The Savanna Theory of Happiness * Satoshi Kanazawa and Norman P. Li * 10. How Evolutionary Psychology Can Contribute to Group Process Research * Joseph M. Whitmeyer * Part III: Biosociological Approaches * 11. The Genetics of Human Behavior: A Hopeless Opus? * Colter Mitchell * 12. DNA is Not Destiny * Rose McDermott and Peter K. Hatemi * 13. On the Genetic and Genomic Basis of Aggression, Violence, and Antisocial Behavior * Kevin M. Beaver, Eric J. Connolly, Joseph L. Nedelec, and Joseph A. Schwartz * 14. Genetics and Politics: A Review for the Social Scientist * Adam Lockyer and Peter K. Hatemi * 15. Genes and Status Achievement * François Nielsen * 16. Peer Networks, Psychobiology of Stress Response, and Adolescent Development * Olga Kornienko and Douglas A. Granger * 17. Stress and Stress Hormones * Jeff Davis and Kristen Damron * 18. Social Epigenetics of Human Behavior * Daniel E. Adkins, Kelli M. Rasmussen, and Anna R. Docherty * 19. Physiology of Face-to-face Competition * Allan Mazur * Part IV: Evolutionary Approaches * 20. Evolutionary Behavioral Science: Core Principles, Common Misconceptions, and a Troubling Tendency * Timothy Crippen * 21. Evolutionary Family Sociology * Anna Rotkirch * 22. Evolution and Human Reproduction * Martin Fieder and Susanne Huber * 23. Evolution, Societal Sexism, and Universal Average Sex Differences in Cognition and Behavior * Lee Ellis * 24. Evolutionary Theory and Criminology * Anthony Walsh and Cody Jorgensen * 25. The Biosocial Study of Ethnicity * Frank Salter * 26. Human Sociosexual Dominance Theory * Kristin Liv Rauch and Rosemary L. Hopcroft * Part V: Sociocultural Evolution * 27. From Paganism to World Transcendence: Religious Attachment Theory and the Evolution of the World Religions * Stephen K. Sanderson * 28. The Evolutionary Approach to History: Sociocultural Phylogenetics * Marion Blute and Fiona Jordan * Part VI: Conclusion * 29. Why Sociology Should Incorporate Biology * Rosemary L. Hopcroft
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