Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Social Theory
- The Cambridge Handbook of Social Theory
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Rational Choice Theory and Methodological Individualism
- 2 Network Theories
- 3 Cultural Sociology
- 4 Identity
- 5 Emotions Theory
- 6 Theorizing Sex/Gender: Feminist Social Theory
- 7 Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory
- 8 Modernity
- 9 Realism
- 10 Globalization: Not Good, Bad, or Over
- 11 Time/Space
- 12 Social Theory in the Anthropocene: Ecological Crisis and Renewal
- 13 Embodiment
- 14 Sexualities
- 15 Multiculturalism
- 16 Risk
- 17 Trust and the Variety of Its Bases
- 18 Unities Within Conflict: Mapping Biology’s Relevance to Sociological Theory
- 19 Civil Society
- 20 Social Movements: Sequences vs Fuzzy Temporality
- 21 Immigration
- Index
- References
18 - Unities Within Conflict: Mapping Biology’s Relevance to Sociological Theory
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 December 2020
- The Cambridge Handbook of Social Theory
- The Cambridge Handbook of Social Theory
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Rational Choice Theory and Methodological Individualism
- 2 Network Theories
- 3 Cultural Sociology
- 4 Identity
- 5 Emotions Theory
- 6 Theorizing Sex/Gender: Feminist Social Theory
- 7 Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory
- 8 Modernity
- 9 Realism
- 10 Globalization: Not Good, Bad, or Over
- 11 Time/Space
- 12 Social Theory in the Anthropocene: Ecological Crisis and Renewal
- 13 Embodiment
- 14 Sexualities
- 15 Multiculturalism
- 16 Risk
- 17 Trust and the Variety of Its Bases
- 18 Unities Within Conflict: Mapping Biology’s Relevance to Sociological Theory
- 19 Civil Society
- 20 Social Movements: Sequences vs Fuzzy Temporality
- 21 Immigration
- Index
- References
Summary
Sociology’s long-standing animosity toward the overt inclusion of biological concepts and data in its explanations belies the essential unities between the two disciplines. This chapter maps those historical, ontological, continuous, analogous, and topic unities, and argues that they make the explicit incorporation of biological and evolutionary insight indispensable for the future of sociological theory.The provision or pursuit of anything less than complete, biologically informed explanations for the social is a luxury that sociology can no longer afford.
Biology, biosociology, consilience, evolutionary sociology, sociological theory
Doug Marshall is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Honors Education at the University of South Alabama.He is currently at work on Sociology Distilled: Science, Force, and Structure, a supplemental text for introductory sociology, and a monograph, The Moral Origins of God: Darwin, Durkheim, and Homo Duplex.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Social Theory , pp. 354 - 378Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020