How Humans Cooperate : Confronting the Challenges of Collective Action /

"A new approach to investigating human cooperation developed from the vantage point of an 'anthropological imagination.' Drawing the discipline's broad understanding of humans in biological, social, and cultural dimensions, and across a wide range of temporal, spatial, and cultur...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Blanton, Richard E. (Author), Fargher, Lane (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social action.
Cooperativeness.
Cooperation.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology.
Cooperation (Psychologie)
Action sociale.
Cooperative Behavior
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • What does evolutionary psychology tell us about human cooperation?
  • The path to cooperation through collective action and institutions
  • Anthropology : the missing voice in the conversation about cooperation
  • The contingent cooperator as seen from the perspectives of neurobiology and bioevolution
  • Cooperation or competition in the marketplace?
  • On the need to rethink theories of state formation and how collective action theory will help
  • Cooperation in state-building? An investigation of collective action before and after the rise of modern democracies
  • Center and hinterland under conditions of collective action
  • Collective action and the shaping of cities and their neighborhoods
  • The cultural process of cooperation
  • The causes and consequences of collective action
  • Final thoughts : insights gained from an expanded collective.

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