Download or read book The essential factors of social evolution written by Thomas Nixon Carver and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Social Evolution written by Benjamin Kidd and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-20 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1894, the British sociologist Benjamin Kidd published Social Evolution, an influential book that summarised and evaluated the prevailing social theories at the end of the nineteenth century: Karl Marx's socialism and Herbert Spencer's social Darwinism. Both of these conflicting theories were based on Darwinian evolutionary theory. In this book, Kidd discusses the immense changes that applied science has brought to the world and the interconnectedness of everyone. The book's ten chapters include discussions of the conditions of human progress, the function of religious beliefs, and the organisation of the working classes. Kidd found flaws in both Karl Marx's and Herbert Spencer's vision of society's future and concluded that religion was essential for the evolution of society because it acts in the interest of generational group survival rather than individual competition. Social Evolution called for a comprehensive study of society because a new era in Western civilisation was beginning.
Download or read book The Principles of Social Evolution written by Christopher Robert Hallpike and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1986 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dispelling the general assumption that social institutions survive because of their sophisticated adaptive advantages, this ground-breaking work asserts that the commonest customs and institutions may endure because of their very simplicity or as a result of simple human proclivity. Using religious, military, and kinship institutions to illustrate this argument, the author shows that a precise combination of these factors may lead to the emergence of new forms of social evolution.
Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britannica written by Hugh Chisholm and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Laws of Social Evolution written by Franklin Monroe Sprague and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Collaborative Society written by Dimitar Tchurovsky and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern world accepts economy as the base of society and the rest as "superstructure." This understanding of society leads to the substantial growth of wealth, but also to emerging of global problems, the polarisation of society, instability, nuclear threat moral degradation often referred as the decline of Western civilisation. The best way to resolve these problems is to see society from the different point of view. The New Paradigm of Social Evolution considers society as information and self-organising (living and reasonable) system that generates and transmits knowledge or metaphorically speaking as a "living organism." Hence, ideas and innovations move the world, and the economy is only a part of this process together with two other equally important subsystems of society - culture and form of governance. Changing standpoint for driving force from economy to knowledge represents a completely different picture of society as an interpretation of history, ongoing social processes and future organisation. This book is an attempt to describe and explain the new model of social development.
Download or read book Ecology of Social Evolution written by Judith Korb and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-02-23 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The time is ripe to investigate similarities and differences in the course of social evolution in different animals. This book brings together renowned researchers working on sociality in different animals to deal with the key questions of sociobiology. For the first time, they compile the evidence for the importance of ecological factors in the evolution of social life, ranging from invertebrate to vertebrate social systems, and evaluate its importance versus that of relatedness.
Download or read book Readings in Social Evolution and Development written by S. N. Eisenstadt and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readings in Social Evolution and Development presents a collection of articles on a specialized aspect of sociology, or social psychology. The book starts by describing social change and development and the role of institutionalization, individual behavior, and role performance on such change and development. The text also discusses the basic problems of evolutionary perspective in sociology and studies of development and modernization. The theories of social change, the problem of evolution, and the major trends of change in the contemporary setting, such as changes in the industrial societies and alternative courses of political development in the new states are also encompassed. Sociologists and social psychologists and students taking sociology courses will find the book useful.
Download or read book The Function of Socialization in Social Evolution written by Ernest Watson Burgess and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Factors of Social Evolution Classic Reprint written by Theodore De Laguna and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-28 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Factors of Social Evolution The work which is here offered to the public is a discussion of one of the major problems of sociology. It represents an attempt at what has lately been called scientific synthesis. The materials and the considerations which it brings to gether extend far beyond the limits of any special discipline, as well as beyond the limits of any man's expert competence. It is not necessary to confess the hazards, or to insist upon the importance, of studies of this character. Ours is an age of specialists, and we are severe upon the errors of' one who lets his speculations range outside his proper field. But there are dangers also in the narrower view of things; and in the broader View there is always the possibility that an ob servation in one direction may compensate for confused per ception in another, and reason to hope that the larger contours may stand out with a new clearness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book U S Health in International Perspective written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States is among the wealthiest nations in the world, but it is far from the healthiest. Although life expectancy and survival rates in the United States have improved dramatically over the past century, Americans live shorter lives and experience more injuries and illnesses than people in other high-income countries. The U.S. health disadvantage cannot be attributed solely to the adverse health status of racial or ethnic minorities or poor people: even highly advantaged Americans are in worse health than their counterparts in other, "peer" countries. In light of the new and growing evidence about the U.S. health disadvantage, the National Institutes of Health asked the National Research Council (NRC) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to convene a panel of experts to study the issue. The Panel on Understanding Cross-National Health Differences Among High-Income Countries examined whether the U.S. health disadvantage exists across the life span, considered potential explanations, and assessed the larger implications of the findings. U.S. Health in International Perspective presents detailed evidence on the issue, explores the possible explanations for the shorter and less healthy lives of Americans than those of people in comparable countries, and recommends actions by both government and nongovernment agencies and organizations to address the U.S. health disadvantage.
Download or read book An Introduction to the Study of Social Evolution The Prehistoric Period 1913 written by Francis Stuart Chapin and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book The Concept of Social Change Routledge Revivals written by Anthony D. Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-01-14 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony Smith's important work on the concept of social change, first published in 1973, puts forward the paradigm of historical change as an alternative to the functionalist theory of evolutionary change. He shows that, in attempting to provide a theory of social change, functionalism reveals itself as a species of 'frozen' evolutionism. Functionalism, he argues, is unable to cope with the mechanisms of historical transitions or account for novelty and emergence; it confuses classification of variations with explanation of processes; and its endogenous view of change prevents it from coming to grips with the real events and transformations of the historical record. In his assessment of functionalism, Dr Smith traces its explanatory failures in its accounts of the developments of civilisation, modernisation and revolution. He concludes that the study of 'evolution' is largely irrelevant to the investigation of social change. He proposes instead an exogenous paradigm of social change, which places the study of contingent historical events at its centre.
Download or read book New Evolutionary Social Science written by Heinz-Jurgen Niedenzu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social scientists have long declared their autonomy from the natural sciences, and in doing so have tended to neglect important biological constraints on human nature. Many sociological theories have suggested a nearly complete malleability of patterns of social life. The New Evolutionary Social Science challenges this view by building on Stephen K. Sanderson's 'Darwinian conflict theory' which sets out to synthesise sociological theories with key findings from biology into an overarching scientific paradigm. Configuring and expanding this groundbreaking theory, the contributors to this volume are well-known European and American experts in evolutionary science. The New Evolutionary Social Science develops a new basis for understanding social change and the world's future through a better integration of the natural and social sciences.
Download or read book Social Change And Social Control written by Rajendra Kumar Sharma and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 1997 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Covers Syllabi In The Papers Social Dynamics; Social Change And Social Control, Prescribed By Indian Universities. Part I On Social Change Includes The Discussion Of Social Change, Social Selection, Theories Of Social Change, Social Development, Social Evolution, Social Revolution And Factors And Sources Of Social Change Including Population; Fashion, Style, Fad And Craze; Education; Culture And Civilization; Social Progress, Social Interaction And Social Processes. Part Ii On Social Control Includes Discussion On Social Organization, Status And Role; Individual, Society And Socialization; Suggestion, Imitation And Sympathy, Meaning, Types And Agencies Of Social Control And Factors And Sources Of Social Control Including Social Groups, Family Group, Political Institutions, Economic Institutions, Religious Institutions, Propaganda, Public Opinion And Social Codes.
Download or read book The Function of Socialization in Social Evolution written by Ernest W. Burgess and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Function of Socialization in Social Evolution: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Department of Sociology) The factors in social evolution are reducible to three: geography, heredity, and socialization. Anthropogeographers have assembled the evidence for the influence upon man of his physical environment. Students in biology, and in ethnology and psychology as well, have stressed the importance in social progress of individual and racial characteristics, both organic and mental. The sociologist, on the other hand, has pointed out the limitations of these explanations of human development: first, because each tends to disregard the facts brought forward by the other, and secondly, because both ignore the part played by socialization. The thesis of this essay is that socialization, rather than either geography or heredity, is the dominant factor in social evolution. The evidence for this position is presented in the study of the factors involved in discovery and invention, in social progress, and in personal development. My obligations to those who have studied this problem are indicated only in part by the references in the text and the footnotes. To Albion W.Small I owe the stimulus to persevere to the completion of this work and the suggestion to select the history of the English people for the analysis of the role of socialization in social progress. The teaching and writings of William I. Thomas, George E. Vincent, Charles H. Cooley, George H. Mead, Charles A. Ellwood, and James R. Angell have been especially helpful in the development of the social psychological standpoint for the interpretation of the process of socialization. The delay between writing and publication is responsible for the absence of reference to Wallas' The Great Society and to Ellwood's The Social Problem. My greatest indebtedness is to my sister for her constant assistance in all parts of the preparation of this study. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
