Stephen K. Sanderson

Evolutionism and Its Critics (eBook, ePUB)

Deconstructing and Reconstructing an Evolutionary Interpretation of Human Society

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Evolutionism and Its Critics is a critical history of evolutionary theories in the social sciences and a defense of them against their many critics. Sanderson deconstructs not only the wide array of social evolutionary theories, but the criticisms of the antievolutionists. Deconstructing evolutionary theories means laying bare their fundamental epistemological, methodological, conceptual, and theoretical assumptions and principles. Deconstructing antievolutionism means showing just where and how the critics have, for the most part, gone wrong. But Evolutionism and Its Critics aims to reconstruct as well as deconstruct and does this by building on the shoulders of past giants of evolutionary theorizing a comprehensive evolutionary interpretation of human society based on abundant scientific and historical evidence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317259978
• Artikelnr.: 44366547

Autorenporträt

Stephen K. Sanderson

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 The Nature of Social Evolutionism
Chapter 2 Classical Evolutionism: I
Chapter 3 The Antievolutionary Reaction
Chapter 4 Marxism as Evolutionism
Chapter 5 Classical Evolutionism: II
Chapter 6 The Evolutionary Revival
Chapter 7 Sociological Evolutionism: I
Chapter 8 Anthropological Evolutionism Since 1960
Chapter 9 Sociological Evolutionism: II
Chapter 10 Evolutionary Biology and Social Evolutionism
Chapter 11 Contemporary Antievolutionism
Chapter 12 Evolutionary Materialism: A General Theory of Social Evolution
Epilogue Explaining the Ebb and Flow of Evolutionary Theorizing