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Evolutionary Theory in Social Science

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  • © 1987

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Editors:
  1. Michael Schmid

    1. Department of Sociology, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

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  2. Franz M. Wuketits

    1. Department of Philosophy of Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

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Part of the book series: Theory and Decision Library A: (TDLA, volume 4)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Basic Structures in Human Action: On the Relevance of Bio-Social Categories for Social Theory

    • Peter Meyer
    Pages 1-22

  3. Evolutionary Models and Social Theory. Prospects and Problems

    • Michael Ruse
    Pages 23-47

  4. Evolution, Causality, and Human Freedom. The Open Society from a Biological Point of View

    • Franz M. Wuketits
    Pages 49-77

  5. Collective Action and the Selection of Rules. Some Notes on the Evolutionary Paradigm in Social Theory

    • Michael Schmid
    Pages 79-100

  6. Learning and the Evolution of Social Systems an Epigenetic Perspective

    • Klaus Eder
    Pages 101-125

  7. Evolution and Political Control a Synopsis of a General Theory of Politics

    • Peter A. Corning
    Pages 127-169

  8. Media and Markets

    • Bernhard Giesen
    Pages 171-194

  9. The Self as a Parasite a Sociological Criticism of Popper’s Theory of Evolution

    • Richard Pieper
    Pages 195-224

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 225-259
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In retrospect the 19th century tmdoubtedly seems to be the century of evolutionism. The 'discovery of time' and therewith the experience of variability was made by many sciences: not only historians worked on the elaboration and interpretation of this discovery, but also physicists, geographers, biologists and economists, demographers, archaelogists, and even philosophers. The successful empirical fotmdation of evolutive processes by Darwin and his disciples suggested Herbert Spencer's vigorously pursued efforts in searching for an extensive' catalogue of prime and deduced evolutionary principles that would allow to integrate the most different disciplines of natural and social sciences as well as the efforts of philosophers of ethics and epistemologists. Soon it became evident, however, that the claim for integration anticipated by far the actual results of these different disciplines. Darwin I s theory suffered from the fact that in the beginning a hereditary factor which could have his theory could not be detected, while the gainings of grotmd supported in the social sciences got lost in consequence of the completely ahistorical or biologistic speculations of some representatives of the evolutionary research programm and common socialdarwinistic misinterpretations.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Sociology, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

    Michael Schmid

  • Department of Philosophy of Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Franz M. Wuketits

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Evolutionary Theory in Social Science

  • Editors: Michael Schmid, Franz M. Wuketits

  • Series Title: Theory and Decision Library A:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4005-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1987

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2612-4Published: 31 October 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-8277-8Published: 26 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-4005-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0921-3384

  • Series E-ISSN: 2352-2119

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 263

  • Topics: Philosophy of Biology

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