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The Oxford Handbook of Evolution, Biology, and Society Rosemary L. Hopcroft (Editor) Digital Instant Download

Author(s): Rosemary L. Hopcroft (editor)

ISBN(s): 2017030134

File Details: PDF, 22.28 MB

Year: 2018

Language: English

SKU: EB-12199282 Categories: Politics & Philosophy, Society Tags: Biology, evolution, Oxford Handbook, Rosemary L. Hopcroft

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The Oxford Handbook of Evolution, Biology, and Society – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 2017030134,9780190299330, 0190299339

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ISBN 10: 0190299339
ISBN 13: 9780190299330
Author: Rosemary L. Hopcroft

Evolution, biology, and society is a catch-all phrase encompassing any scholarly work that utilizes evolutionary theory and/or biological or behavioral genetic methods in the study of the human social group, and The Oxford Handbook of Evolution, Biology, and Society contains an much needed overview of research in the area by sociologists and other social scientists. The examined topics cover a wide variety of issues, including the origins of social solidarity; religious beliefs; sex differences; gender inequality; determinants of human happiness; the nature of social stratification and inequality and its effects; identity, status, and other group processes; race, ethnicity, and race discrimination; fertility and family processes; crime and deviance; and cultural and social change. The scholars whose work is presented in this volume come from a variety of disciplines in addition to sociology, including psychology, political science, and criminology. Yet, as the essays in this volume demonstrate, the potential of theory and methods from biology for illuminating social phenomena is clear, and sociologists stand to gain from learning more about them and using them in their own work. The theory focuses on evolution by natural selection, the primary paradigm of the biological sciences, while the methods include the statistical analyses sociologists are familiar with, as well as other methods that they may not be familiar with, such as behavioral genetic methods, methods for including genetic factors in statistical analyses, gene-wide association studies, candidate gene studies, and methods for testing levels of hormones and other biochemicals in blood and saliva and including these factors in analyses. This work will be of interest to any sociologist with an interest in exploring the interaction of biological and sociological processes. As an introduction to the field it is useful for teaching upper-level or graduate students in sociology or a related social science.

Table contents:

Part I Introduction

1. Introduction: Evolution, Biology, and Society

2. Divergence and Possible Consilience Between Evolutionary Biology and Sociology

3. Sociology’s Contentious Courtship with Biology: A Ballad

4. Edward Westermarck: The First Sociobiologist

Part II Social Psychological Approaches

5. Discovering Human Nature Through Cross-Species Analysis

6. The Neurology of Religion: An Explanation from Evolutionary Sociology

7. Reward Allowances and Contrast Effects in Social Evolution: A Challenge to Zygmunt Bauman’s Liquid Modernity

8. Sex Differences in the Human Brain

9. The Savanna Theory of Happiness

10. How Evolutionary Psychology Can Contribute to Group Process Research

Part III Biosociological Approaches

11. The Genetics of Human Behavior: A Hopeless Opus?

12. DNA Is Not Destiny

13. On the Genetic and Genomic Basis of Aggression, Violence, and Antisocial Behavior

14. Genetics and Politics: A Review for the Social Scientist

15. Genes and Status Achievement

16. Peer Networks, Psychobiology of Stress Response, and Adolescent Development

17. Stress and Stress Hormones

18. Social Epigenetics of Human Behavior

19. Physiology of Face-to-Face Competition

Part IV Evolutionary Approaches

20. Evolutionary Behavioral Science: Core Principles, Common Misconceptions, and a Troubling Tendency

21. Evolutionary Family Sociology

22. Evolution and Human Reproduction

23. Evolution, Societal Sexism, and Universal Average Sex Differences in Cognition and Behavior

24. Evolutionary Theory and Criminology

25. The Biosocial Study of Ethnicity

26. Human Sociosexual Dominance Theory

Part V Sociocultural Evolution

27. From Paganism to World Transcendence: Religious Attachment Theory and the Evolution of the World Religions

28. The Evolutionary Approach to History: Sociocultural Phylogenetics

Part VI Conclusion

29. Why Sociology Should Incorporate Biology

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