1st Edition

Crisis in Sociology The Need for Darwin

By Joseph Lopreato, Timothy Crippen Copyright 1999
344 Pages
by Routledge

344 Pages
by Routledge

344 Pages
by Routledge

Crisis in Sociology presents a compelling portrait of sociology's current troubles and proposes a controversial remedy. In the authors' view, sociology's crisis has deep roots, traceable to the over-ambitious sweep of the discipline's founders. Generations of sociologists have failed to focus effectively on the tasks necessary to build a social science. The authors see sociology's most disabling... Read more
1: From Early Promise to Deepening Crisis; 1: The Early Promise; 2: The Deepening Crisis; 3: Why the Crisis: A Sketch; 2: Elements of Evolutionary Theory; 4: Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection; 5: Elements of Evolutionary Behavioral Science; 3: Select Adaptations and Applications; 6: Fundamentals of Sex Differences; 7: An Uneasy Alliance; 8: Fundamentals of Social Stratification; 9: The Clannish Brain

Biography

Joseph Lopreato, Timothy Crippen