The Human difference : animals, computers, and the necessity of social science /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wolfe, Alan, 1942-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1993.
Temas:
Sociology > Methodology.
Social sciences > Methodology.
Sociobiology.
Human ecology.
Computers > Social aspects.
Sociobiologie.
Écologie humaine.
Ordinateurs > Aspect social.
human ecology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
Computers > Social aspects
Human ecology
Social sciences > Methodology
Sociobiology
Sociology > Methodology
Sociology
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. A distinct science for a distinct species. Sociology's fragility. Nature's revenge. Equality at what price? the interpreting self and the meaningful society
  • 2. Other animal species and us. Social theory and the second biological revolution. The case for other animals. What sociobiology teaches us. Tertiary rules and human choice
  • 3. Mind, self, society, and computer. Respect for machines. The human essence test. Software intelligence. Hardware intelligence. Computers, humans, and rules
  • 4. Putting nature first. The environmental impulse. Animal rights and human imagination. Deep ecology. Gaia. The computer in the woods
  • 5. The post-modern void. Between the sacred and the profane. Beneath the sacred and the profane. Information versus meaning. Algorithmic justice. A world safe for systems
  • 6. Social science as a way of knowing. The two faces of social science. Methodological pluralism. Sociological realism. Social science as a vocation. Is sociology necessary?
  • 7. Society on its own terms. Competing metaphors. What social institutions are for. Philosophical anthropology revisited.

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