Primitivism, Transgression, and other Myths: The Philosophical Anthropology of Georges Bataille
... “primitive” and modern. At the beginning of his philosophical career, Bataille shifts from an interest in the cultural impurities of sacrificial or primitive behaviors to a more abstract philosophy of " the sacred" or " the primitive" as an element of all social life. As such Bataille has become an ...
... “primitive” and modern. At the beginning of his philosophical career, Bataille shifts from an interest in the cultural impurities of sacrificial or primitive behaviors to a more abstract philosophy of " the sacred" or " the primitive" as an element of all social life. As such Bataille has become an ...
McTaggart John Mitchell - MacSphere
... Both the autonomous individual, solitary and selfsufficient, who roamed freely, in the natural landscape of the Enlightenment social thinkers' imagination and the monophobic man of the theocrats, indelibly embedded in the fabric of collective life, were recast in the latter part of the century as ho ...
... Both the autonomous individual, solitary and selfsufficient, who roamed freely, in the natural landscape of the Enlightenment social thinkers' imagination and the monophobic man of the theocrats, indelibly embedded in the fabric of collective life, were recast in the latter part of the century as ho ...
Innovation Without the Word
... literature of the 20th century. However, as it would be a mistake to study an object or concept (innovation) in construction only through those who have used its (yet-to-come) name (as bibliometric studies that select their sample based on words do), it would also be a mistake if it is forgotten tha ...
... literature of the 20th century. However, as it would be a mistake to study an object or concept (innovation) in construction only through those who have used its (yet-to-come) name (as bibliometric studies that select their sample based on words do), it would also be a mistake if it is forgotten tha ...
Working Papers Migration Theory
... This paper elaborates an aspirations–capabilities framework to advance our understanding of human mobility. Arguing in favour of conceptual eclecticism to bridge disciplinary and paradigmatic divides, the paper conceives migration as an intrinsic part of broader processes of social transformation an ...
... This paper elaborates an aspirations–capabilities framework to advance our understanding of human mobility. Arguing in favour of conceptual eclecticism to bridge disciplinary and paradigmatic divides, the paper conceives migration as an intrinsic part of broader processes of social transformation an ...
Working Papers Migration Theory Quo Vadis? Paper 100, November 2014
... This paper elaborates an aspirations–capabilities framework to advance our understanding of human mobility. Arguing in favour of conceptual eclecticism to bridge disciplinary and paradigmatic divides, the paper conceives migration as an intrinsic part of broader processes of social transformation an ...
... This paper elaborates an aspirations–capabilities framework to advance our understanding of human mobility. Arguing in favour of conceptual eclecticism to bridge disciplinary and paradigmatic divides, the paper conceives migration as an intrinsic part of broader processes of social transformation an ...
Reviewing Theories of Adolescent Substance Use: Organizing
... Menard, 1989) describes the mechanisms by which neighborhood disorganization, attachment to families, and social values contribute directly to involvement with deviant peers and indirectly to involvement with ESU. By contrast, Brook, Brook, Gordon, Whiteman, and Cohen's (1990) family interaction the ...
... Menard, 1989) describes the mechanisms by which neighborhood disorganization, attachment to families, and social values contribute directly to involvement with deviant peers and indirectly to involvement with ESU. By contrast, Brook, Brook, Gordon, Whiteman, and Cohen's (1990) family interaction the ...
From the "Modern Synthesis" to cybernetics: Ivan Ivanovich
... unbiased reading of his texts difficult. Here we show that taking all of his works into consideration (including those only available in Russian) paints a much more dynamic and exciting picture of what he tried to achieve. Schmalhausen pioneered the integration of a developmental perspective into ev ...
... unbiased reading of his texts difficult. Here we show that taking all of his works into consideration (including those only available in Russian) paints a much more dynamic and exciting picture of what he tried to achieve. Schmalhausen pioneered the integration of a developmental perspective into ev ...
Haeckel: legacy of fraud to popularise evolution
... this work had appeared before my essay had been written, I should probably never have completed it. Almost all the conclusions at which I have arrived I find confirmed by this naturalist, whose knowledge on many points is much fuller than mine.’ The dogmatic demagogue of the continental Europe ...
... this work had appeared before my essay had been written, I should probably never have completed it. Almost all the conclusions at which I have arrived I find confirmed by this naturalist, whose knowledge on many points is much fuller than mine.’ The dogmatic demagogue of the continental Europe ...
books/Wallace/Alfred Russel Wallace on Spiritualism, Man, and
... refuted by reference to earlier discussion, by showing how certain contentious passages in his writings are more easily accounted for through the interpretation of his work presented here, and by taking note of the significant fact that Wallace himself never wrote anything referring to, or conceding ...
... refuted by reference to earlier discussion, by showing how certain contentious passages in his writings are more easily accounted for through the interpretation of his work presented here, and by taking note of the significant fact that Wallace himself never wrote anything referring to, or conceding ...
1 CULTURAL EVOLUTION TRUE AND FALSE
... enforcement’ of spontaneously generated institutions or systems of rules (e.g. markets) is clearly put forth in Hayek, but indeed has never been systematically investigated by him. It is true that later in his work Vanberg takes a much more positive approach to Hayek’s “evolutionary paradigm”, conce ...
... enforcement’ of spontaneously generated institutions or systems of rules (e.g. markets) is clearly put forth in Hayek, but indeed has never been systematically investigated by him. It is true that later in his work Vanberg takes a much more positive approach to Hayek’s “evolutionary paradigm”, conce ...
convergence, recurrence and diversification of
... Beetles were dissected in phosphate-buffered saline and their sperm harvested from the seminal vesicles. The sperm were dried on a subbed microscope slide, fixed, and DNA stained (Hoechst’s or DAPI). To confirm the presence or absence of conjugation, sperm found in the female sperm-storage organs we ...
... Beetles were dissected in phosphate-buffered saline and their sperm harvested from the seminal vesicles. The sperm were dried on a subbed microscope slide, fixed, and DNA stained (Hoechst’s or DAPI). To confirm the presence or absence of conjugation, sperm found in the female sperm-storage organs we ...
MAX WEBER: FINDING SIGNIFICANCE IN REALITY Timothy
... Marx's name comes up quite often in Weber's works; in fact, there are entire books focused on the relationship of the two thinkers' theories and concepts. The key difference between the two was that Marx wanted to eliminate this 'separation' while Weber wanted to understand it (Lӧwith, ...
... Marx's name comes up quite often in Weber's works; in fact, there are entire books focused on the relationship of the two thinkers' theories and concepts. The key difference between the two was that Marx wanted to eliminate this 'separation' while Weber wanted to understand it (Lӧwith, ...
ibn khaldun`s conception of dynastic cycles and
... Since the beginning of the discipline, International Relations (IR) theorists have tried to answer number of questions. One of them, probably the most important one, is about the causes that lie behind war and shifts in international politics (Burchill & Linklater, 2005, p. 7). Different answers to ...
... Since the beginning of the discipline, International Relations (IR) theorists have tried to answer number of questions. One of them, probably the most important one, is about the causes that lie behind war and shifts in international politics (Burchill & Linklater, 2005, p. 7). Different answers to ...
Lester F. Ward: Pure Sociology
... realize that it is done for a different object from any that I have formerly had in view. A logically organized system of sociology thus necessarily becomes a philosophy. Not that it is a speculation, which would imply that it abandoned the domain of fact, but from the very wealth of facts which suc ...
... realize that it is done for a different object from any that I have formerly had in view. A logically organized system of sociology thus necessarily becomes a philosophy. Not that it is a speculation, which would imply that it abandoned the domain of fact, but from the very wealth of facts which suc ...
Peirce`s evolutionary pragmatic idealism - Deep Blue
... ARTHURW.BURKS Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed for Man Some Consequences of Four Incapacities Grounds of Validity of the Laws of Logic: Further Consequences of Four Incapacities. ...
... ARTHURW.BURKS Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed for Man Some Consequences of Four Incapacities Grounds of Validity of the Laws of Logic: Further Consequences of Four Incapacities. ...
Handbook of Contemporary European Social Theory
... European social theory. It covers sociological theory, the wider theoretical traditions in the social sciences including cultural and political theory, anthropological theory, social philosophy and social thought in the broadest sense of the term. The volume surveys the classical heritage, the major ...
... European social theory. It covers sociological theory, the wider theoretical traditions in the social sciences including cultural and political theory, anthropological theory, social philosophy and social thought in the broadest sense of the term. The volume surveys the classical heritage, the major ...
From Darwinian Metaphysics towards Understanding the Evolution
... Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins that I have been engaged with fundamental questions in the field of sociobiology and evolutionary biology – sometimes even in dreams. It was immediately clear to me that this provocative book had a bearing on many philosophical topics; but it was not until later that ...
... Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins that I have been engaged with fundamental questions in the field of sociobiology and evolutionary biology – sometimes even in dreams. It was immediately clear to me that this provocative book had a bearing on many philosophical topics; but it was not until later that ...
Neglected Affinities: Max Weber and Georg Simmel
... the groundingof sociologicalinquiryoffersthe possibilityof broadening our understandingof each man'sthought.This seemsall the more promisingsince their mutualregard4for the other'saccomplishment was augmentedby personalassociation,which gave an occasionfor furtheringtheir understandingof issues in d ...
... the groundingof sociologicalinquiryoffersthe possibilityof broadening our understandingof each man'sthought.This seemsall the more promisingsince their mutualregard4for the other'saccomplishment was augmentedby personalassociation,which gave an occasionfor furtheringtheir understandingof issues in d ...
THE THEORY OF COMMUNICATIVE ACTION
... chology and the analysis of language and theory of science developed in formal-pragmatic terms. Mead analyzed phenomena of consciousness from the standpoint of how they are formed within the structures of linguistically or symbolically mediated interaction. In his view, language has constitutive sig ...
... chology and the analysis of language and theory of science developed in formal-pragmatic terms. Mead analyzed phenomena of consciousness from the standpoint of how they are formed within the structures of linguistically or symbolically mediated interaction. In his view, language has constitutive sig ...
The Evolution of Aging 3
... characteristic, an adaptation of organism design, which had an evolutionary purpose. Darwin had previously suggested that aging was an evolved characteristic despite conflicts with Darwinian evolutionary mechanics. Many current theorists have discarded adaptive theories of aging using one or more of ...
... characteristic, an adaptation of organism design, which had an evolutionary purpose. Darwin had previously suggested that aging was an evolved characteristic despite conflicts with Darwinian evolutionary mechanics. Many current theorists have discarded adaptive theories of aging using one or more of ...
The History and Philosophy of Social Scienceee
... Our object is to study the ways in which people have tried to develop a scientific approach to the investigation of human social behaviour. But we cannot begin by definitively stating what this means. As we shall see, the history of social science shows a great variety of approaches, and we shall ha ...
... Our object is to study the ways in which people have tried to develop a scientific approach to the investigation of human social behaviour. But we cannot begin by definitively stating what this means. As we shall see, the history of social science shows a great variety of approaches, and we shall ha ...
theodosius dobzhansky - National Academy of Sciences
... natural populations. Estimates of rates of mutation and accumulation of lethals were first published in 1941 (again in collaboration with Sewall Wright); estimates of the critical parameter Nm (the product of effective population size times migration rate) in natural populations appeared in 1942, 19 ...
... natural populations. Estimates of rates of mutation and accumulation of lethals were first published in 1941 (again in collaboration with Sewall Wright); estimates of the critical parameter Nm (the product of effective population size times migration rate) in natural populations appeared in 1942, 19 ...
The Peppered moth: decline of a Darwinian disciple
... introductory chapters on the nature of melanism, its distribution among animals, and its proposed causes’. However, the message from the review was that the peppered moth case is fatally flawed as an example of Darwinian evolution. Coyne writes: ‘….for the time being we must discard Biston as a well ...
... introductory chapters on the nature of melanism, its distribution among animals, and its proposed causes’. However, the message from the review was that the peppered moth case is fatally flawed as an example of Darwinian evolution. Coyne writes: ‘….for the time being we must discard Biston as a well ...
Justice, Order and Anarchy: The International Political Theory of
... but that every individual has a conscience, and this conscience or instinct for justice is the primary source of all moral norms and social action. This says nothing of their ultimate goodness or badness, only that morality, and thus degree of passionate autonomy, is a physiological fact. For Rousse ...
... but that every individual has a conscience, and this conscience or instinct for justice is the primary source of all moral norms and social action. This says nothing of their ultimate goodness or badness, only that morality, and thus degree of passionate autonomy, is a physiological fact. For Rousse ...
Sport and Modern Social Theorists: Theorizing Homo Ludens
... autonomous relationship towards developments within mainstream social theory. Key theoretical periods – such as the rise of structuralfunctionalism or the birth of Gramscian cultural studies – have been faithfully shadowed within sport studies. Conversely, while some highly influential social theori ...
... autonomous relationship towards developments within mainstream social theory. Key theoretical periods – such as the rise of structuralfunctionalism or the birth of Gramscian cultural studies – have been faithfully shadowed within sport studies. Conversely, while some highly influential social theori ...
Sociocultural evolution
Sociocultural evolution, sociocultural evolutionism or cultural evolution are theories of cultural and social evolution that describe how cultures and societies change over time. Whereas sociocultural development traces processes that tend to increase the complexity of a society or culture, sociocultural evolution also considers process that can lead to decreases in complexity (degeneration) or that can produce variation or proliferation without any seemingly significant changes in complexity (cladogenesis). Sociocultural evolution is ""the process by which structural reorganization is affected through time, eventually producing a form or structure which is qualitatively different from the ancestral form"".(Note, this article focusses on that use of the term 'socio-cultural evolution' to refer to work that is not in line with contemporary understandings of the word 'evolution'. There is a separate body of academic work which uses the term 'cultural evolution' using a more consensus Darwinian understanding of the term 'evolution'. For a description of this work, based in the foundational work of DT Campbell in the 1960s and followed up by Boyd, Richerson, Cvalli-Sforza, and Feldman in the 1980s, go to Cultural evolution or Dual inheritance theory.)Most 19th-century and some 20th-century approaches to socioculture aimed to provide models for the evolution of humankind as a whole, arguing that different societies have reached different stages of social development. The most comprehensive attempt to develop a general theory of social evolution centering on the development of socio-cultural systems, the work of Talcott Parsons (1902-1979), operated on a scale which included a theory of world history. Another attempt, on a less systematic scale, originated with the world-systems approach.More recent approaches focus on changes specific to individual societies and reject the idea that cultures differ primarily according to how far each one is on the linear scale of social progress. Most modern archaeologists and cultural anthropologists work within the frameworks of neoevolutionism, sociobiology and modernization theory.Many different societies have existed in the course of human history, with estimates as high as over one million separate societies; however, as of 2013, only about two hundred or so different societies survive.