Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface: a postmodern metanarrative
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 History: where did something come from?
- 3 Necessity: why did it evolve?
- 4 Competition, conflict and cooperation: why and how do they interact socially?
- 5 The ideal and the material: the role of memes in evolutionary social science
- 6 Micro and macro I: the problem of agency
- 7 Micro and macro II: the problem of subjectivity
- 8 Micro and macro III: the evolution of complexity and the problem of social structure
- 9 Evolutionism and the future of the social sciences
- References
- Index
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface: a postmodern metanarrative
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 History: where did something come from?
- 3 Necessity: why did it evolve?
- 4 Competition, conflict and cooperation: why and how do they interact socially?
- 5 The ideal and the material: the role of memes in evolutionary social science
- 6 Micro and macro I: the problem of agency
- 7 Micro and macro II: the problem of subjectivity
- 8 Micro and macro III: the evolution of complexity and the problem of social structure
- 9 Evolutionism and the future of the social sciences
- References
- Index
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- Darwinian Sociocultural EvolutionSolutions to Dilemmas in Cultural and Social Theory, pp. 233 - 239Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010