The theory of cultural and social selection

"In 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...

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Glavni autor: Runciman, W. G. 1934- (-)
Vrsta građe: Knjiga
Jezik: eng
Impresum: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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  • Prologue : 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.