The First Institutional Spheres in Human Societies: Evolution and Adaptations from Foraging to the Threshold of Modernity (Evolutionary Analysis in the Social Sciences) - Image 1

£40.99

Routledge The First Institutional Spheres in Human Societies: Evolution and Adaptations from Foraging to the Threshold of Modernity (Evolutionary Analysis in the Social Sciences)

Name: The First Institutional Spheres in Human Societies: Evolution and Adaptations from Foraging to the Threshold of Modernity (Evolutionary Analysis in the Social Sciences)
Brand: Routledge
Price: 42.92 GBP
Availability: InStock

Anthropology & Sociology

Price History & Forecast

Last 81 days • 81 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 81 days • 3 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £46 (35 days, 43.2%)

Price range: £41 - £46

Price levels: 3 different prices over 81 days

Description

Few concepts are as central to sociology as institutions. Yet, like so many sociological concepts, institutions remain vaguely defined. This book expands a foundational definition of the institution, one which locates them as the basic building blocks of human societies―as structural and cultural machines for survival that make it possible to pass precious knowledge from one generation to the next, ensuring the survival of our species. The book extends this classic tradition by, first, applying advances in biological evolution, neuroscience, and primatology to explain the origins of human societies and, in particular, the first institutional sphere: kinship. The authors incorporate insights from natural sciences often marginalized in sociology, while highlighting the limitations of purely biogenetic, Darwinian explanations. Secondly, they build a vivid conceptual model of institutions and their central dynamics as the book charts the chronological evolution of kinship, polity, religion, law, and economy, discussing the biological evidence for the ubiquity of these institutions as evolutionary adaptations themselves.

Product Specifications

Brand: Routledge
Format: paperback
ASIN: 1032124083
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences > Anthropology & Sociology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 16 March 2022
Listed Since: 13 May 2021

Barcode

No barcode data available

Routledge The First Institutional Spheres in Human Societies: Evolution and Adaptations from Foraging to the Threshold of Modernity (Evolutionary Analysis in the Social Sciences)

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

The Evolution of Social Institutions: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (World-Systems Evolution and Global Futures)

Change in Societal Institutions (Advances in Experimental Medicine & Biology (Springer))

The Emergence and Evolution of Religion: By Means of Natural Selection (Evolutionary Analysis in the Social Sciences)

On the Origin of Societies by Natural Selection (Studies in Comparative Social Science)

On the Origin of Societies by Natural Selection (Studies in Comparative Social Science)

The Foundations of Evolutionary Institutional Economics: Generic Institutionalism (Routledge Advances in Heterodox Economics)

Digital Capitalism and New Institutionalism (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)

Our Animal Condition and Social Construction (Human Evolution, Biological and Cultural Domains)

The New Evolutionary Sociology: Recent and Revitalized Theoretical and Methodological Approaches (Evolutionary Analysis in the Social Sciences)

Toward a Biosocial Science: Evolutionary Theory, Human Nature, and Social Life (Evolutionary Analysis in the Social Sciences)

The Origins and Nature of Sociality

Man in Adaptation: The Institutional Framework

The Emergence of Religion in Human Evolution (Routledge Studies in Neurotheology, Cognitive Science and Religion)

The Evolution of Human Societies: From Foraging Group to Agrarian State, Second Edition

Routledge Social Institutions: Emergence, Maintenance and Effects

Reframing Institutional Logics: Substance, Practice and History (Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society)

Émile Durkheim and the Birth of the Gods: Clans, Incest, Totems, Phratries, Hordes, Mana, Taboos, Corroborees, Sodalities, Menstrual Blood, Apes, Churingas, Cairns, and Other Mysterious Things

Cultural Evolution: Society, Technology, Language, and Religion: 12 (Strüngmann Forum Reports)

Incest: Origins of the Taboo

Evolution and Social Life (Routledge Classic Texts in Anthropology)

Kinship and Human Evolution: Making Culture, Becoming Human

Human Thought and Social Organization: Anthropology on a New Plane

Domains and Major Transitions of Social Evolution

Institutions Unbound: Social Worlds and Human Rights