Marion Blute
Biographic Data
| ID | 249800 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marion Blute |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marion |
| FAMILY NAME | Blute |
| SIGNATURE | BLUTE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7373-6436 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Gabriel Tarde and cultural evolution
After documenting Tarde's neglect and placing him in the 19th-century sociological context, this paper argues that his concept of 'imitation' was important because social learning (writ small) or culture (writ large), a non-genetic form of heredity, means that a distinct cultural evolutionary process including variation and selection resulting in descent with modification is inevitable. Beginning in the last half of the 20th century there was a f…
It isn’t true, it isn’t new, we knew it all along
Vinicius, Lucio
Anthropos , Seite 311 - 312
The Reinvention of Grand Theories of the Scientific/Scholarly Process
In the mid-twentieth century, the reigning understanding of the scientific process, logical positivism, disintegrated. Subsequently, there has been fragmentation in science studies (Hess 1997; Yearley 2005; Sismondo 2008; Restivo and Croissant 2008). Many have emphasized the postmodern theme that general theories or grand narratives are impossible. Despite a profusion of diversity, some sociologists and sociologically-minded philosophers of scien…
Darwinian Sociocultural Evolution
Social scientists can learn a lot from evolutionary biology - from systematics and principles of evolutionary ecology to theories of social interaction including competition, conflict and cooperation, as well as niche construction, complexity, eco-evo-devo, and the role of the individual in evolutionary processes. Darwinian sociocultural evolutionary theory applies the logic of Darwinism to social-learning based cultural and social change. With a…
Reports of the Death of the Sociology of Science Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Selon les histoires, la sociologie de la science a été complètement remplacée par ces écoles de pensées : la sociologie de connaissance scientifique (SCS), les études sociales de la science, et l'épistémologie sociale. Au minimum, ces écoles de pensées sont considérées comme ayant réussi à dominer la sociologie de la science. Ici nous présenterons des données démontrant que les rapports au sujet de la mort de la sociologie de la science ont été f…
W.G. Runciman, The Theory of Cultural and Social Selection
of the Order of the British Empire and Fellow of the British Academy) is an historical and comparative sociologist and social theorist.Along with
Myra J. Hird. The Origins of Sociable Life
The evolutionary socioecology of gestural communication
This paper begins with a brief introduction to gestures in the context of communication, multi-process selection theory, and evolutionary socio-ecology. Evolutionary ecology asks, and seeks to answer the question of under what ecological conditions selection favors what kinds of characteristics including the behavioral characteristics oriented towards the physical environment and other species. While communication is sometimes involved in interac…
Gene-Culture Coevolutionary Games
Gene-culture interactions have largely been modelled employing population genetic-type models. Moreover, in the most notable application to date, the “interactive” modes have been one way rather than bidirectional. This paper suggests using game theoretic, fully interactive models. Employing the logic utilized in population ecology for coevolution between two species, the basic kinds of coevolutionary interactions possible between biological and …
Altruistically Inclined
Reviewed by: Altruistically Inclined? The Behavioral Sciences, Evolutionary Theory, and the Origins of Reciprocity Marion Blute Alexander J. Field , Altruistically Inclined? The Behavioral Sciences, Evolutionary Theory, and the Origins of Reciprocity. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2001, 373 pp. According to Field who is an economist, from the very beginning, research on humans subjects playing games have shown that humans behave al…
Altruistically Inclined? The Behavioral Sciences, Evolutionary Theory, and the Origins of Reciprocity
Altruistically Inclined? examines the implications of recent research in the natural sciences for two important social scientific approaches to individual behavior: the economic/rational choice approach and the sociological/anthropological. It considers jointly two controversial and related ideas: the operation of group selection within early human evolutionary processes and the likelihood of modularity—domain-specific adaptations in our cognitiv…
History versus Science
History matters because time and place matter and because of path-dependence. Hence only idiographic and not nomothetic statements are possible according to some historical sociolo- gists. Others accuse the former of having abandoned science. It is not sufficiently appreciated that in understanding the role of both history and necessity, evolutionary theory has solved this problem. Moreover, methods available for inferring what is uniquely relate…
Biologists on Sociocultural Evolution
The Sociobiology of Sex and Sexes Today [and Comments and Reply]
Three problems pertaining to sex and sexes-why sex exists at all, why there should normally be two mating types in a sexual species, and why the two should so often be dimorphic (take the form of male and female)-have created a crisis in evolutionary theory. This paper contains a sketch of these puzzles and some opinions about the direction in which solutions are likely to be found, including a new theory of sex chromosome morphology and activity…
Learning, Social Learning, and Sociocultural Evolution
Sociocultural evolutionism
The author argues that sociocultural evolutionism has never been an evolutionary theory in the sense in which that model is employed in the life sciences, but that instead it sought natural sequential laws of history or employed an analogy with a developing organism rather than with phylogenetic change. Biology, on the other hand, in embracing polythetic or cluster as opposed to Aristotelian classification, implicitly abandoned this approach only…
Sociobiology
The Growth of Science and Economic Development
While most indicators of scientific activity have been shown to be growing through time at an exponential rate, a cross-sectional analysis suggests that scientific growth does not greatly outstrip economic growth. Power functions relating percentage increases between variables in a linear or non-accelerating fashion were found to approximate the relationship between scientific and technical publications in 1961 and five indices of the early '60's…
Sociocultural evolutionism
The author argues that sociocultural evolutionism has never been an evolutionary theory in the sense in which that model is employed in the life sciences, but that instead it sought natural sequential laws of history or employed an analogy with a developing organism rather than with phylogenetic change. Biology, on the other hand, in embracing polythetic or cluster as opposed to Aristotelian classification, implicitly abandoned this approach only…
History versus Science
History matters because time and place matter and because of path-dependence. Hence only idiographic and not nomothetic statements are possible according to some historical sociolo- gists. Others accuse the former of having abandoned science. It is not sufficiently appreciated that in understanding the role of both history and necessity, evolutionary theory has solved this problem. Moreover, methods available for inferring what is uniquely relate…
Sociobiology
Altruistically Inclined? The Behavioral Sciences, Evolutionary Theory, and the Origins of Reciprocity
Altruistically Inclined? examines the implications of recent research in the natural sciences for two important social scientific approaches to individual behavior: the economic/rational choice approach and the sociological/anthropological. It considers jointly two controversial and related ideas: the operation of group selection within early human evolutionary processes and the likelihood of modularity—domain-specific adaptations in our cognitiv…
The Growth of Science and Economic Development
While most indicators of scientific activity have been shown to be growing through time at an exponential rate, a cross-sectional analysis suggests that scientific growth does not greatly outstrip economic growth. Power functions relating percentage increases between variables in a linear or non-accelerating fashion were found to approximate the relationship between scientific and technical publications in 1961 and five indices of the early '60's…
The Reinvention of Grand Theories of the Scientific/Scholarly Process
In the mid-twentieth century, the reigning understanding of the scientific process, logical positivism, disintegrated. Subsequently, there has been fragmentation in science studies (Hess 1997; Yearley 2005; Sismondo 2008; Restivo and Croissant 2008). Many have emphasized the postmodern theme that general theories or grand narratives are impossible. Despite a profusion of diversity, some sociologists and sociologically-minded philosophers of scien…
Gene-Culture Coevolutionary Games
Gene-culture interactions have largely been modelled employing population genetic-type models. Moreover, in the most notable application to date, the “interactive” modes have been one way rather than bidirectional. This paper suggests using game theoretic, fully interactive models. Employing the logic utilized in population ecology for coevolution between two species, the basic kinds of coevolutionary interactions possible between biological and …
Gabriel Tarde and cultural evolution
After documenting Tarde's neglect and placing him in the 19th-century sociological context, this paper argues that his concept of 'imitation' was important because social learning (writ small) or culture (writ large), a non-genetic form of heredity, means that a distinct cultural evolutionary process including variation and selection resulting in descent with modification is inevitable. Beginning in the last half of the 20th century there was a f…
Biologists on Sociocultural Evolution
The Sociobiology of Sex and Sexes Today [and Comments and Reply]
Three problems pertaining to sex and sexes-why sex exists at all, why there should normally be two mating types in a sexual species, and why the two should so often be dimorphic (take the form of male and female)-have created a crisis in evolutionary theory. This paper contains a sketch of these puzzles and some opinions about the direction in which solutions are likely to be found, including a new theory of sex chromosome morphology and activity…
The Growth of Science and Economic Development
While most indicators of scientific activity have been shown to be growing through time at an exponential rate, a cross-sectional analysis suggests that scientific growth does not greatly outstrip economic growth. Power functions relating percentage increases between variables in a linear or non-accelerating fashion were found to approximate the relationship between scientific and technical publications in 1961 and five indices of the early '60's…
Sociobiology
Sociocultural evolutionism
The author argues that sociocultural evolutionism has never been an evolutionary theory in the sense in which that model is employed in the life sciences, but that instead it sought natural sequential laws of history or employed an analogy with a developing organism rather than with phylogenetic change. Biology, on the other hand, in embracing polythetic or cluster as opposed to Aristotelian classification, implicitly abandoned this approach only…
Learning, Social Learning, and Sociocultural Evolution
The Sociobiology of Sex and Sexes Today [and Comments and Reply]
Three problems pertaining to sex and sexes-why sex exists at all, why there should normally be two mating types in a sexual species, and why the two should so often be dimorphic (take the form of male and female)-have created a crisis in evolutionary theory. This paper contains a sketch of these puzzles and some opinions about the direction in which solutions are likely to be found, including a new theory of sex chromosome morphology and activity…
Biologists on Sociocultural Evolution
History versus Science
History matters because time and place matter and because of path-dependence. Hence only idiographic and not nomothetic statements are possible according to some historical sociolo- gists. Others accuse the former of having abandoned science. It is not sufficiently appreciated that in understanding the role of both history and necessity, evolutionary theory has solved this problem. Moreover, methods available for inferring what is uniquely relate…
Altruistically Inclined
Reviewed by: Altruistically Inclined? The Behavioral Sciences, Evolutionary Theory, and the Origins of Reciprocity Marion Blute Alexander J. Field , Altruistically Inclined? The Behavioral Sciences, Evolutionary Theory, and the Origins of Reciprocity. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2001, 373 pp. According to Field who is an economist, from the very beginning, research on humans subjects playing games have shown that humans behave al…
Altruistically Inclined? The Behavioral Sciences, Evolutionary Theory, and the Origins of Reciprocity
Altruistically Inclined? examines the implications of recent research in the natural sciences for two important social scientific approaches to individual behavior: the economic/rational choice approach and the sociological/anthropological. It considers jointly two controversial and related ideas: the operation of group selection within early human evolutionary processes and the likelihood of modularity—domain-specific adaptations in our cognitiv…
The evolutionary socioecology of gestural communication
This paper begins with a brief introduction to gestures in the context of communication, multi-process selection theory, and evolutionary socio-ecology. Evolutionary ecology asks, and seeks to answer the question of under what ecological conditions selection favors what kinds of characteristics including the behavioral characteristics oriented towards the physical environment and other species. While communication is sometimes involved in interac…
Gene-Culture Coevolutionary Games
Gene-culture interactions have largely been modelled employing population genetic-type models. Moreover, in the most notable application to date, the “interactive” modes have been one way rather than bidirectional. This paper suggests using game theoretic, fully interactive models. Employing the logic utilized in population ecology for coevolution between two species, the basic kinds of coevolutionary interactions possible between biological and …
Darwinian Sociocultural Evolution
Social scientists can learn a lot from evolutionary biology - from systematics and principles of evolutionary ecology to theories of social interaction including competition, conflict and cooperation, as well as niche construction, complexity, eco-evo-devo, and the role of the individual in evolutionary processes. Darwinian sociocultural evolutionary theory applies the logic of Darwinism to social-learning based cultural and social change. With a…
Reports of the Death of the Sociology of Science Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Selon les histoires, la sociologie de la science a été complètement remplacée par ces écoles de pensées : la sociologie de connaissance scientifique (SCS), les études sociales de la science, et l'épistémologie sociale. Au minimum, ces écoles de pensées sont considérées comme ayant réussi à dominer la sociologie de la science. Ici nous présenterons des données démontrant que les rapports au sujet de la mort de la sociologie de la science ont été f…
W.G. Runciman, The Theory of Cultural and Social Selection
of the Order of the British Empire and Fellow of the British Academy) is an historical and comparative sociologist and social theorist.Along with
Myra J. Hird. The Origins of Sociable Life
The Reinvention of Grand Theories of the Scientific/Scholarly Process
In the mid-twentieth century, the reigning understanding of the scientific process, logical positivism, disintegrated. Subsequently, there has been fragmentation in science studies (Hess 1997; Yearley 2005; Sismondo 2008; Restivo and Croissant 2008). Many have emphasized the postmodern theme that general theories or grand narratives are impossible. Despite a profusion of diversity, some sociologists and sociologically-minded philosophers of scien…
It isn’t true, it isn’t new, we knew it all along
Vinicius, Lucio
Anthropos , Seite 311 - 312
Gabriel Tarde and cultural evolution
After documenting Tarde's neglect and placing him in the 19th-century sociological context, this paper argues that his concept of 'imitation' was important because social learning (writ small) or culture (writ large), a non-genetic form of heredity, means that a distinct cultural evolutionary process including variation and selection resulting in descent with modification is inevitable. Beginning in the last half of the 20th century there was a f…
Sociology (15 works) · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Social science (8 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Biology (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Economics (5 works)