Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Prologue: The Darwinian legacy
- 1 The neo-Darwinian paradigm
- 2 Natural selection and evoked behaviour
- 3 Cultural selection and acquired behaviour
- 4 Social selection and imposed behaviour
- 5 Selectionist theory as narrative history
- Epilogue: Sociology in a post-Darwinian world
- References
- Index
- References
References
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Prologue: The Darwinian legacy
- 1 The neo-Darwinian paradigm
- 2 Natural selection and evoked behaviour
- 3 Cultural selection and acquired behaviour
- 4 Social selection and imposed behaviour
- 5 Selectionist theory as narrative history
- Epilogue: Sociology in a post-Darwinian world
- References
- Index
- References
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Theory of Cultural and Social Selection , pp. 225 - 243Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009
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