Missing the Revolution
Darwinism for social scientists
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 5 January 2006
- ISBN 9780195130027
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages312 pages
- Size 157x236x25 mm
- Weight 592 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Numerous tables 0
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Short description:
Missing the Revolution is an invitation to social scientists to engage with Darwinian thought, which is now so large a part of the non-sociological study of human nature and society. Barkow asks the reader to put aside the preconceptions and stereotypes social scientists often have of the 'biological' and to take into account a powerful paradigm that is far away from those past generations who would invoke a vocabulary of 'genes' and 'Darwin' as justification for genocide. To marshal evidence for his argument, Barkow has gathered together eminent scholars from a variety of disciplines to present applications of evolutionary psychology in a manner intended to illustrate their relevance to current concerns for social scientists.
MoreLong description:
Missing the Revolution is an invitation to social scientists who, in Barkow's view, have been missing the great evolution-revolution of our time to engage with Darwinian thought, which is now so large a part of the non-sociological study of human nature and society. Barkow asks the reader to put aside the preconceptions and stereotypes social scientists often have of the 'biological' and to take into account a powerful paradigm that is far away from those past generations who would invoke a vocabulary of 'genes' and 'Darwin' as justification for genocide. The evolutionary perspective, Barkow maintains, provides no particular support for the status quo, no rationalizations for racism or any other form of social inequality. 'Cultural' cannot possibly be opposed to 'biological' because culture and society are the only means we have of expressing our evolved psychology; social-cultural constructionism is not only compatible with evidence for his argument, Barkow has gathered together eminent scholars from a variety of disciplines to present applications of evolutionary psychology in a manner intended to illustrate their relevance to current concerns for social scientists.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction: Sometimes the Bus Does Wait
Part I: Gender
Feminism and Evolutionary Psychology
The Male Flash of Anger: Violent Response to Transgression as an Example of the Intersection of Evolved Psychology and Culture
Part II: Controversies
Evolutionary Explanation: Between Science and Values
Making Hay out of Straw? Real and Imagined Controversies in Evolutionary Psychology
Part III: Human and Nonhuman Primates
Behavioral Ecology and the Social Sciences
The Impact of Primatology on the Study of Human Society
Part IV: Sociology and Criminology
Evolutionary Psychology and Criminal Behaviour
Evolution, Agency and Sociology
