Biology And The Social Sciences: An Emerging Revolution

by Thomas C. Wiegele (Editor)

Overview

Exciting new developments in behavioral biology are creating an intellectual revolution in the study of human behavior and are causing social scientists to reassess the ways in which they approach their disciplines. This book examines how these new findings are likely to transform and shape anthropology, sociology, economics, and political science in the coming decade. The book begins with an overview of the rapidly changing relationship between biological and social studies. In successive sections, well-known social scientists, biologists, and philosophers address the theoretical challenges involved in incorporating material from sociobiology, ecology, genetics, and psychophysiology into their own disciplines’ approaches to the analysis of human behavior. The concluding chapters examine specific methodological problems and related issues.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367018672
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/07/2019
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Also of Interest — Introduction — Is a Revolution Brewing in the Social Sciences? — The General Relationship Between Biology and the Social Sciences — Introduction to Part 2 — Bridging the Paradigms: Biology and the Social Sciences — The Concepts of Disciplines and Antidisciplines — The Social Sciences Cannot Be Unified with Biology — Anthropology — Introduction to Part 3 — Culture and Sociobiology — Toward a Coevolutionary Theory of Human Biology and Culture — Human Behavior and the Behavior of Other Animals — Anthropology and the Nature of Things — Economics — Introduction to Part 4 — Economics As a Not Very Biological Science — Economics from a Biological Viewpoint — Political Science — Introduction to Part 5 — Overcoming Pre-Behavioralism in Political Science — Politics as a Biological Phenomenon — Politics as a Life Science — The Future of Biopolitics — Sociology — Introduction to Part 6 — The Decline and Fall of Sociology, 1975–2000 — Reflections on a Premature Burial — Sociobiology vs. Biosociology — Sociology and Sociobiology — A Somewhat Sympathetic Response to Ellis — Rejoinder to My Critics — Biological Explanation in Sociology — Sociobiology or Balanced Biosocial Theory? — Biology and the Social Sciences: Problems and Questions — Introduction to Part 7 — A Marxist View of Biology and the Social Sciences — Sociobiology as an Adaptationist Program — Methodological Problems Associated with a Biologically Oriented Social Science