From Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda`s Thumb I. The Panda`s Thumb
... somewhat doddering describer of curious plants and animals, a man who had one lucky insight at the right time. A rash of Darwinian scholarship has laid this myth firmly to rest during the past twenty years (see essay 2). Before then, one prominent scholar spoke for many ill-informed colleagues when ...
... somewhat doddering describer of curious plants and animals, a man who had one lucky insight at the right time. A rash of Darwinian scholarship has laid this myth firmly to rest during the past twenty years (see essay 2). Before then, one prominent scholar spoke for many ill-informed colleagues when ...
Social Darwinism in Anglophone Academic Journals
... century to close down much of the discussion in the social sciences concerning the influence of human biology on human behavior. Typically with inaccurate accounts of its past usage, it has forced an unwarranted division between conceptualizations of the natural and the social. The acute effects of ...
... century to close down much of the discussion in the social sciences concerning the influence of human biology on human behavior. Typically with inaccurate accounts of its past usage, it has forced an unwarranted division between conceptualizations of the natural and the social. The acute effects of ...
First Year Seminar Fall, 2011 EVOLUTION AND INTELLECTUAL
... Questions for discussion: Darwin provides us with a number of >tests= of his theory of natural selection. A test is usually understood to have two possible outcomes: pass or fail. What, if any, evidence might lead us to give natural selection a failing grade as a theory of evolutionary change? Did D ...
... Questions for discussion: Darwin provides us with a number of >tests= of his theory of natural selection. A test is usually understood to have two possible outcomes: pass or fail. What, if any, evidence might lead us to give natural selection a failing grade as a theory of evolutionary change? Did D ...
extinction Lyell`s views on organic progression, evolution and
... record finally compelled his reluctant allegiance to organic progression. Lyell's first public statement of his altered views was in his semi-popular book the Antiquit3" of Man (1863). While he was able to sketch out an evolutionary history of the human species, he could not present any positive evi ...
... record finally compelled his reluctant allegiance to organic progression. Lyell's first public statement of his altered views was in his semi-popular book the Antiquit3" of Man (1863). While he was able to sketch out an evolutionary history of the human species, he could not present any positive evi ...
THINKING SERIOUSLY ABOUT CRIME: Jock Young
... theoretical models. Positivism, for example, contains many other strands besides that of ‘individual positivism’, on which this article focuses. Although the paradigms are presented sequentially, this does not imply that they have been developed in a series of discrete historical stages, from Classi ...
... theoretical models. Positivism, for example, contains many other strands besides that of ‘individual positivism’, on which this article focuses. Although the paradigms are presented sequentially, this does not imply that they have been developed in a series of discrete historical stages, from Classi ...
historical materialism k
... that Marxism is a metanarrative of explanatory importance, resting unambiguously on the causality of productive forces and the determinative boundaries set by fundamentally economic relations, such as class, does not necessitate refusing the significance of other points of self-identification, such ...
... that Marxism is a metanarrative of explanatory importance, resting unambiguously on the causality of productive forces and the determinative boundaries set by fundamentally economic relations, such as class, does not necessitate refusing the significance of other points of self-identification, such ...
Taxonomy was the foundation of Darwin`s evolution
... knew that in addition to that furthest circle of experts, his book would be read by another dimension of men and women, Victorian readers who were either already aware that naturalists classified organisms using these nested categories, or else were open to learn of it. The enticing word “we” announ ...
... knew that in addition to that furthest circle of experts, his book would be read by another dimension of men and women, Victorian readers who were either already aware that naturalists classified organisms using these nested categories, or else were open to learn of it. The enticing word “we” announ ...
Normalcy Abstracts
... of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, first published in 1886, introduced into public discourse notions of ‘double-consciousness’ as one example of the ‘dysfunctional psychic phenomena’ (Mighall, 2002) circulating in the scientific literature of the day . So successful was the pedagogy, so well the lessons lear ...
... of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, first published in 1886, introduced into public discourse notions of ‘double-consciousness’ as one example of the ‘dysfunctional psychic phenomena’ (Mighall, 2002) circulating in the scientific literature of the day . So successful was the pedagogy, so well the lessons lear ...
2016 Bergwall
... often travels along different paths that do not cross in a predetermined way. The different legal levels of social welfare organizations can indeed be seen as largely autonomous and, at the same time, interdependent. Hence, in practice, social welfare decisions are just as much by social, political ...
... often travels along different paths that do not cross in a predetermined way. The different legal levels of social welfare organizations can indeed be seen as largely autonomous and, at the same time, interdependent. Hence, in practice, social welfare decisions are just as much by social, political ...
Evolution - Your Planet Earth
... Genetic code of chimps and gorillas is almost identical to humans • If evolution is true then we might also expect that closely related organisms will be more similar to one another than more distantly related organisms. • Comparison of the human genetic code with that of other organisms show that c ...
... Genetic code of chimps and gorillas is almost identical to humans • If evolution is true then we might also expect that closely related organisms will be more similar to one another than more distantly related organisms. • Comparison of the human genetic code with that of other organisms show that c ...
FORUM : QUALITATIVE SOCIAL RESEARCH SOZIALFORSCHUNG
... present. This paper argues against this kind of genetic conception of developmental time; instead, it sees events as not causally determined. Every event, performance, ritual etc. must be seen as an autonomic and contingent occurrence with its own conditions and its own time-structure. The meaning o ...
... present. This paper argues against this kind of genetic conception of developmental time; instead, it sees events as not causally determined. Every event, performance, ritual etc. must be seen as an autonomic and contingent occurrence with its own conditions and its own time-structure. The meaning o ...
Theory European Journal of Political
... us now look at the conception Honneth actually came up with. As I said, Honneth is guided by the young Marx’s thought that work has not only an economic, but a moral and emancipatory significance. The moral significance of work lies, to put it bluntly, in the contribution it makes (when not distorte ...
... us now look at the conception Honneth actually came up with. As I said, Honneth is guided by the young Marx’s thought that work has not only an economic, but a moral and emancipatory significance. The moral significance of work lies, to put it bluntly, in the contribution it makes (when not distorte ...
PowerPoints Chapter 12
... The critical perspective (cont.) • They believe that development of particular theories can bring about social changes in social structures and practices, that is, the promotion of a particular theory becomes a social actuality • View that, if theorists have well developed theories which question t ...
... The critical perspective (cont.) • They believe that development of particular theories can bring about social changes in social structures and practices, that is, the promotion of a particular theory becomes a social actuality • View that, if theorists have well developed theories which question t ...
Read the introduction - Duke University Press
... “pure” judgments of beauty follow from a disinterested feeling of pleasure, coupled with the purposeless nature of art as art, would seem to rule out of court any consideration of the social in aesthetics. Second, the normative Humean claim that the proper theory of taste entails concurrence of aes ...
... “pure” judgments of beauty follow from a disinterested feeling of pleasure, coupled with the purposeless nature of art as art, would seem to rule out of court any consideration of the social in aesthetics. Second, the normative Humean claim that the proper theory of taste entails concurrence of aes ...
Chapter 13 - Everglades High School
... • In Darwin’s time, most people—including scientists—held the view that each species is a divine creation that exists, unchanging, as it was originally created. • In 1809, Jean Baptiste Lamarck proposed a hypothesis for how organisms change over generations towards complexity. ...
... • In Darwin’s time, most people—including scientists—held the view that each species is a divine creation that exists, unchanging, as it was originally created. • In 1809, Jean Baptiste Lamarck proposed a hypothesis for how organisms change over generations towards complexity. ...
CSGP 07/2 - Trent University
... In order to further deepen this analysis, it would be necessary to examine the nature of the symbolic systems operating in this particular social system (e.g. values, beliefs and professional standards held by members; the organizational “culture”). The basic point here is to stress that symbolic s ...
... In order to further deepen this analysis, it would be necessary to examine the nature of the symbolic systems operating in this particular social system (e.g. values, beliefs and professional standards held by members; the organizational “culture”). The basic point here is to stress that symbolic s ...