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The myth of culture : why we need a genuine natural science of societies /

Before oxygen's discovery, scientists invoked a mysterious inner principle of fire to account for burning. Today, scholars appeal to an analogously unscientific inner principle, known as culture, to account for human actions. So what is wrong with cult.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Barber, Nigel, 1955-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Teapots in heaven, phlogiston on earth
  • The emptiness of moral explanations
  • Replacing moralism with science
  • Stitching up the fabric of evolutionary time
  • If culture is a myth, why is religion so dangerous?
  • Enemies of evolutionary social science
  • Evolutionary science is empirical and practical, not "speculative" and "just so"
  • Wounds that time can't heal
  • Looking beyond the individual
  • What evolutionary theory can and cannot do
  • Appendix : Subjective science? Sociology lurches into philosophy.