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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 t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Runciman, W. G. (Walter Garrison), 1934-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.