A general sociology text written from a comparative, historical, and evolutionary perspective. The most important changes in this updated edition are a reworked discussion of the rise of modern capitalism and revised and extended discussions of the recent economic and political changes in the former

Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies

Politics & Social Sciences

Sanderson, Stephen K.

Social Sciences

Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers, Incorporated

HarperCollins, Publishers

This text takes a unique approach to the introductory course by taking a comparative, historical and evolutionary perspective on human societies. The comparative-historical approach broadens allows students to really understand how societies work and is ideal for instructors who wish to provide their introductory students with an intellectually sophisticated text that presents sociology as a comparative science of society. The new edition features a streamlined organization and thorough updating of topics and statistical data.

Harpercollins College Div

This new book examines the entire range of human societies, past and present, and the various forces that brought about social evolution. It focuses on the roles of economics, technology, population, and ecology in the long-term evolution of human societies; and provides detailed coverage of the rise of capitalism, modern industrial societies, and globalization.

World Societies: The Evolution Of Human Social Life

Alderson, Arthur S.

Pearson College Div

Human Nature and the Evolution of Society

If evolution has changed humans physically, has it also affected human behavior? Drawing on evolutionary psychology, sociobiology, and human behavioral ecology, Human Nature and the Evolution of Society explores the evolutionary dynamics underlying social life.In this introduction to human behavior and the organization of social life, Stephen K. Sanderson discusses traditional subjects like mating behavior, kinship, parenthood, status-seeking, and violence, as well as important topics seldom included in books of this type, especially gender, economies, politics, foodways, race and ethnicity, and the arts. Examples and research on a wide range of human societies, both industrial and nonindustrial, are integrated throughout. With chapter summaries of key points, thoughtful discussion questions, and important terms defined within the text, the result is a broad-ranging and comprehensive consideration of human society, thoroughly grounded in an evolutionary perspective.

Routledge

If evolution has changed humans physically, has it also affected human behavior? Drawing on evolutionary psychology, sociobiology, and human behavioral ecology, Human Nature and the Evolution of Society explores the evolutionary dynamics underlying social life. In this introduction to human behavior and the organization of social life, Stephen K. Sanderson discusses traditional subjects like mating behavior, kinship, parenthood, status-seeking, and violence, as well as important topics seldom included in books of this type, especially gender, economies, politics, foodways, race and ethnicity, and the arts. Examples and research on a wide range of human societies, both industrial and nonindustrial, are integrated throughout. With chapter summaries of key points, thoughtful discussion questions, and important terms defined within the text, the result is a broad-ranging and comprehensive consideration of human society, thoroughly grounded in an evolutionary perspective.

In Social Transformations: A General Theory of Historical Development Stephen K. Sanderson develops a general theory of social evolution and uses it to explain the most important evolutionary transformations in human history and prehistory. In this expanded edition Sanderson has added a discussion of the biological constraints acting on humans that have helped to push social evolution along strikingly similar lines throughout the world. The new discussion places the theoretical arguments of Social Transformations in the context of an even more comprehensive theory of human social behavior.

Social Transformations: A General Theory of Historical Development

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

In Social Transformations Stephen K. Sanderson develops a general theory of social evolution and uses it to explain the most important evolutionary transformations in human history and prehistory. In this expanded edition Sanderson has added a discussion of the biological constraints acting on humans that have helped to push social evolution along strikingly similar lines throughout the world.

This book attempts a broad theoretical synthesis within the field of sociology and its closely allied sister discipline of anthropology. It draws together what the author considers the best of these disciplinesO theoretical approaches into a synthesized theory called Darwinian conflict theory. This theory, in the most general sense, is a synthesis of the tradition of economic and ecological materialism and conflict theory stemming from Marx, Marvin Harris, and the tradition of biological materialism deriving from Darwin. The first half of the book is taken up with critiques of existing theoretical approaches; this then leads to the full elaboration, in formal propositional form, of synthetic theory. The second half of the book lays out the large amount of evidence, both qualitative and quantitative, that supports the synthesized theory.

The Evolution of Human Sociality: A Darwinian Conflict Perspective

Anthropology

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Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies

Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies

Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies

World Societies: The Evolution Of Human Social Life

Human Nature and the Evolution of Society

Human Nature and the Evolution of Society

Social Transformations: A General Theory of Historical Development

Social Transformations: A General Theory of Historical Development

The Evolution of Human Sociality: A Darwinian Conflict Perspective

The Evolution of Human Sociality: A Darwinian Conflict Perspective