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_aRunciman, W. G. _q(Walter Garrison), _d1934- _eauthor. |
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_aThe theory of cultural and social selection / _cW.G. Runciman. |
| 246 | 3 | _aThe Theory of Cultural & Social Selection | |
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_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2009. |
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_a1 online resource (viii, 257 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s). |
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| 500 | _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). | ||
| 505 | 0 | _aPrologue : the Darwinian legacy -- The neo-Darwinian paradigm -- Natural selection and evoked behaviour -- Cultural selection and acquired behaviour -- Social selection and imposed behaviour -- Selectionist theory as narrative history -- Epilogue : sociology in a post-Darwinian world. | |
| 520 | _aIn The Theory of Cultural and Social Selection, W. G. Runciman presents an original and wide-ranging account of the fundamental process by which human cultures and societies come to be of the different kinds that they are. Drawing on and extending recent advances in neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory, Runciman argues that collective human behaviour should be analyzed as the acting-out of information transmitted at the three separate but interacting levels of heritable variation and competitive selection - the biological, the cultural, and the social. The implications which this carries for a reformulation of the traditional agenda of comparative and historical sociology are explored with the help of selected examples, and located within the context of current debates about sociological theory and practice. The Theory of Cultural and Social Selection is a succinct and highly imaginative contribution to one of the great intellectual debates of our times, from one of the world's leading social theorists. | ||
| 650 | 0 | _aSocial evolution. | |
| 650 | 0 | _aSociology. | |
| 650 | 0 | _aNatural selection. | |
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_aDarwin, Charles, _d1809-1882. |
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_iPrint version: _z9780521199513 |
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