Toward a Biosocial Science: Evolutionary Theory, Human Nature, and Social Life

ISBN-13: 9780367750978 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 174 str.

Alexander Riley

Opis

Towards a Biosocial Science is a critical introduction to the history and conceptual concerns of sociology that incorporates the immense and revolutionary contributions evolutionary biology, behavioral genetics, and neuroscience are making to the study of human behavior and social organization.

O autorze

Alexander Riley, Professor of Sociology at Bucknell University, USA, has read and written extensively in social theory and the history of the social sciences over the past 20 years. His work on the nature and legacy of the Durkheimian tradition is internationally recognized. Riley is the author of several previous books, including Angel Patriots: The Crash of United Flight 93 and the Myth of America, and Godless Intellectuals? The Intellectual Pursuit of the Sacred Reinvented.