The Dance of Innovation: Infrastructure, Social Oscillation, and the Evolution of Societies

ISBN-13: 9781032209418 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 10 str.

Kevin McCaffree

Opis

Few of us consider how mundane infrastructures—from electrical grids to sewage systems—have developed over millennia in ways that enable democracy, technological innovation, to individual liberty itself. But what drives the evolution of this infrastructure? And why is infrastructure so critical to human flourishing?

Spis treści

Introduction
1. Humans’ Genetic Unity and Ape Ancestry
2. Fission-Fusion Oscillation as the Central Sustaining Mechanism of Organismality, Part 1
3. Fission-Fusion Oscillation as the Central Sustaining Mechanism of Organismality, Part 2
4. Intuitive Information Processing
5. On the Important Distinction Between “Tools” and “Infrastructure”
6. The Tools and Infrastructure of Fossil Fuel Societies
7. Cities Drive the Metabolism of Societies
8. An “Oscillation-Infrastructural” Theory of Cultural Evolution

O autorze

Kevin McCaffree is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of North Texas. He is the author or co-author of three books, co-editor of Theoretical Sociology: The Future of a Disciplinary Foundation and series editor (with Jonathan H. Turner) of Evolutionary Analysis in the Social Sciences. In addition to these works, he has authored or co-authored more than 20 peer-reviewed journal articles and handbook chapters published on a variety of topics ranging from cultural evolution to criminology to the sociology of empathy.