Evolutionary Approaches to Sociology
Revised 3 May 2000
Contemporary evolutionary approaches to sociology should be disguished from the
developmental theories of Spencer, Durkheim, and Parsons. This list has been supplied
by Paul Marsden <PaulMarsden@msn.com> at the Graduate Research Centre in the
Social Sciences, University of Sussex. Subsequent additions have been marked *.
- Agnew, N.M, K.M. Ford, and P.J. Hayes (1994). Expertise in Context - Personally
Constructed, Socially Selected, and Reality-Relevant. International Journal
of Expert Systems 7 (1): 65-88
- Blute, M. (1997). History Versus Science: The Evolutionary Solution. Canadian
Journal Of Sociology - Cahiers Canadiens De Sociologie 22 (3): 345-364
- Burns, T. and Thomas Dietz (1992). Cultural Evolution: Social Rule Systems,
Selection, and Human Agency. International Sociology 7: 259 283
- Carey, A.D. and Joseph Lopreato (1994). Sociobiology and the Wayward Critic.
Sociological Perspectives 37 (3): 403-430
- Conein, B. (1992). Ethology and Sociology: The Contribution Ethology Has
Made to the Theory of Social Interaction. Revue Francaise De Sociologie
33 (1): 87-104
- Crippen, T. (1994). Neo-Darwinian Approaches In The Social-Sciences - Unwarranted
Concerns And Misconceptions. Sociological Perspectives 37 (3): 391-401
- Crippen, T. (1994). Toward a Neo-Darwinian Sociology - Its Nomological
Principles and Some Illustrative Applications. Sociological Perspectives
37 (3): 309-335
- Crippen, T. and M. Maxwell (1992). The Sociobiological Imagination. Journal
of Social and Evolutionary Systems 15 (4): 431-433
- Crippen. T. and A. Walsh (1996). Biosociology: An Emerging Paradigm Social
Forces 75 (1): 351-352
- Curtis, R., G. Radnitzky, and W.W. Bartley (1998). Evolutionary Epistemology,
Rationality, and the Sociology of Knowledge. Philosophy of the Social Sciences
19 (1): 95-102
- Dietz, Thomas and Tom R. Burns (1992). Human Agency and the Evolutionary
Dynamics of Culture. Acta Sociologica 35 (3): 187-200
- Dietz, Thomas, Tom R. Burns, and Frederick H. Buttel (1990). Evolutionary
Theory in Sociology: An Examination of Current Thinking. Sociological Forum
5 (2)
- * DiMaggio, Paul (1997). Culture and Cognition. Annual Review of Sociology
23: 263-87. Full text.
- Kinnunen, J. (1996). Gabriel Tarde as a Founding Father of Innovation Diffusion
Research. Acta Sociologica 39 (4) 431-442
- Kitcher, P. (1987). Precis of Vaulting Ambition: Sociobiology and the
Quest for Human Nature. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 10: 61-100
- Lopreato, Joseph (1990). From Social Evolutionism to Biocultural
Evolutionism. Sociological Forum 5 (2)
- Maasen, S. and P. Weingart (1995). Metaphors - Messengers Of Meaning: A
Contribution to an Evolutionary Sociology Of Science. Science Communication
17 (1): 9-31
- Macy, M.W. and A. Flache (1995). Beyond Rationality in Models of Choice.
Annual Review of Sociology 21: 73-91
- Maryanski, A. (1994). The Pursuit of Human Nature in Sociobiology and Evolutionary
Sociology. Sociological Perspectives 37 (3): 375-389
- Masters, R.D. and C.N. Degler (1992). In Search of Human Nature: The Decline
and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought. Politics and The Life
Sciences 11 (2): 279-281
- Nielsen, F. (1994). Sociobiology and Sociology. Annual Review of Sociology
20: 267-303
- Palmer, D.C. and J.W. Donahoe (1992). Essentialism and Selectionism in
Cognitive Science and Behavior Analysis. American Psychologist 47 (11):
1344-1358
- *Rosenberg, Alexander (May 2000). Darwinism in Philosophy, Social Science
and Policy. Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology. New York: Cambridge
University Press
- Sanderson, S.K. (1994). Evolutionary Materialism: A Theoretical Strategy
for the Study of Social Evolution. Sociological Perspectives 37 (1):
47-73
- Simon, H.A. (1990). A Mechanism for Social Selection and Successful Altruism.
Science 250: 1665-1668.
- Sperber, Dan (1994). The Modularity of Thought and the Epidemiology of
Representations. L. Hirschfied & S. Gelman (eds.). Mapping the Mind:
Domain Specificity in Cognition and Culture. CUP
- Turner, J.H. (1996). The Evolution of Emotions in Humans: A Darwinian-Durkheimian
Analysis. Journal For the Theory of Social Behaviour 26 (1):.1-33
- Tushman, M.L. and L. Rosenkopf (1992). Organizational Determinants of Technological
Change: Toward a Sociology of Technological Evolution. Research In Organizational
Behavior 14: 311-347
- Udry, Jr. (1995). Sociology and Biology: What Biology Do Sociologists Need
to Know? Social Forces 73 (4): 1267-1278
- Van Den Berghe, Pierre L. (1990). Why Most Sociologists Don't (and Won't)
Think Evolutionarily. Sociological Forum 5 (2)
- Waldman, B. (1989). Sociobiology, Sociology, and Pseudo-Evolutionary Reasoning.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (3): 547ff.
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