Gregory C Leavitt
Biographic Data
| ID | 3617022 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gregory C Leavitt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gregory C |
| FAMILY NAME | Leavitt |
| SIGNATURE | LEAVITT G C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Gustavus Adolphus College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Power of Materialist-Environmental Explanations
The incest taboo has been the subject of much curiosity since the mid-19th century. While the taboo and its violation have consumed much attention especially concerning the abuse of children, other scholars have focused on the origin of the incest taboo. This focus on origin created a division between those who ascribed to Darwin’s selection theory and those who recognized environmental conditions. In the latter case what has been underdeveloped …
The incest taboo
The ongoing discussion between social scientists who espouse some variety of socio-environmental theory (for examples see Leavitt, Incest and Inbreeding Avoidance: A Critique of Darwinian Social Science, 2005: 215 and Leavitt, `Disappearance of the Incest Taboo', American Anthropologist, 1989) and those who advance Darwinian selection principles (human sociobiology, Darwinian social science, behavioral genetics, or evolutionary psychology) have o…
Sociobiology and Incest Avoidance
Inbreeding Fitness
General Evolution and Durkheim's Hypothesis of Crime Frequency
This research tests and supports the hypothesis proposed by Durkheim which relates increasing crime frequency to social differentiation as a process of sociocultural evolution. Unlike past tests of this hypothesis, the current study provides a cross-cultural sample of 121 societies representing a broad range of societal development, geographical dispersion, and cultural diversity. This examination interprets social differentiation in the broader …
Sociobiological Explanations of Incest Avoidance
Sociobiologists of human behavior, arguing that close inbreeding results in deleterious offspring, have proposed that natural selection processes have produced incest avoidance mechanisms in the human genotype. To support this evolutionary hypothesis, universal cultural incest proscriptions and research indicating a close compliance with these taboos are cited. Additional evidence from population genetics, ethology, and human community studies is…
Disappearance of the Incest Taboo
Employing a cross-cultural sample of 121 societies, this research tests and supports three hypotheses offered by Yehudi Cohen (1978) concerning the relationship between the general evolution of society and the extension of the incest taboo. Cohen generally proposes that the number of relatives included in the incest taboo will be reduced as societies become technologically and socially more complex. More specifically, Cohen identifies the develop…
Ideology and the Materialist Model of General Evolution
The reappearance of general evolutionary theory in sociology and anthropology has been accompanied by a marked interest in cultural materialism. The materialist model of general evolution proposes that the sociocultural system is composed of three basic and interrelated subsystems: the material or technological system, the social structural system, and the ideological system. Following the evolutionary materialism of Marx and Morgan, many current…
The Frequency of Warfare
This research stresses the utility of evolutionary theory and comparative methodology for explaining warfare frequency. It is hypothesized that warfare frequency (external war, civil war, rioting, and feuding) is related to sociocultural development as indicated by cross-cultural measures of technology and social differentiation. The hypotheses were supported utilizing data drawn from the Human Relations Area microfilm Files on 132 contemporary a…
Disappearance of the Incest Taboo
Employing a cross-cultural sample of 121 societies, this research tests and supports three hypotheses offered by Yehudi Cohen (1978) concerning the relationship between the general evolution of society and the extension of the incest taboo. Cohen generally proposes that the number of relatives included in the incest taboo will be reduced as societies become technologically and socially more complex. More specifically, Cohen identifies the develop…
Sociobiological Explanations of Incest Avoidance
Sociobiologists of human behavior, arguing that close inbreeding results in deleterious offspring, have proposed that natural selection processes have produced incest avoidance mechanisms in the human genotype. To support this evolutionary hypothesis, universal cultural incest proscriptions and research indicating a close compliance with these taboos are cited. Additional evidence from population genetics, ethology, and human community studies is…
The Frequency of Warfare
This research stresses the utility of evolutionary theory and comparative methodology for explaining warfare frequency. It is hypothesized that warfare frequency (external war, civil war, rioting, and feuding) is related to sociocultural development as indicated by cross-cultural measures of technology and social differentiation. The hypotheses were supported utilizing data drawn from the Human Relations Area microfilm Files on 132 contemporary a…
The incest taboo
The ongoing discussion between social scientists who espouse some variety of socio-environmental theory (for examples see Leavitt, Incest and Inbreeding Avoidance: A Critique of Darwinian Social Science, 2005: 215 and Leavitt, `Disappearance of the Incest Taboo', American Anthropologist, 1989) and those who advance Darwinian selection principles (human sociobiology, Darwinian social science, behavioral genetics, or evolutionary psychology) have o…
General Evolution and Durkheim's Hypothesis of Crime Frequency
This research tests and supports the hypothesis proposed by Durkheim which relates increasing crime frequency to social differentiation as a process of sociocultural evolution. Unlike past tests of this hypothesis, the current study provides a cross-cultural sample of 121 societies representing a broad range of societal development, geographical dispersion, and cultural diversity. This examination interprets social differentiation in the broader …
Inbreeding Fitness
Sociobiology and Incest Avoidance
Ideology and the Materialist Model of General Evolution
The reappearance of general evolutionary theory in sociology and anthropology has been accompanied by a marked interest in cultural materialism. The materialist model of general evolution proposes that the sociocultural system is composed of three basic and interrelated subsystems: the material or technological system, the social structural system, and the ideological system. Following the evolutionary materialism of Marx and Morgan, many current…
The Frequency of Warfare
This research stresses the utility of evolutionary theory and comparative methodology for explaining warfare frequency. It is hypothesized that warfare frequency (external war, civil war, rioting, and feuding) is related to sociocultural development as indicated by cross-cultural measures of technology and social differentiation. The hypotheses were supported utilizing data drawn from the Human Relations Area microfilm Files on 132 contemporary a…
Ideology and the Materialist Model of General Evolution
The reappearance of general evolutionary theory in sociology and anthropology has been accompanied by a marked interest in cultural materialism. The materialist model of general evolution proposes that the sociocultural system is composed of three basic and interrelated subsystems: the material or technological system, the social structural system, and the ideological system. Following the evolutionary materialism of Marx and Morgan, many current…
Disappearance of the Incest Taboo
Employing a cross-cultural sample of 121 societies, this research tests and supports three hypotheses offered by Yehudi Cohen (1978) concerning the relationship between the general evolution of society and the extension of the incest taboo. Cohen generally proposes that the number of relatives included in the incest taboo will be reduced as societies become technologically and socially more complex. More specifically, Cohen identifies the develop…
Sociobiological Explanations of Incest Avoidance
Sociobiologists of human behavior, arguing that close inbreeding results in deleterious offspring, have proposed that natural selection processes have produced incest avoidance mechanisms in the human genotype. To support this evolutionary hypothesis, universal cultural incest proscriptions and research indicating a close compliance with these taboos are cited. Additional evidence from population genetics, ethology, and human community studies is…
Sociobiology and Incest Avoidance
Inbreeding Fitness
General Evolution and Durkheim's Hypothesis of Crime Frequency
This research tests and supports the hypothesis proposed by Durkheim which relates increasing crime frequency to social differentiation as a process of sociocultural evolution. Unlike past tests of this hypothesis, the current study provides a cross-cultural sample of 121 societies representing a broad range of societal development, geographical dispersion, and cultural diversity. This examination interprets social differentiation in the broader …
The incest taboo
The ongoing discussion between social scientists who espouse some variety of socio-environmental theory (for examples see Leavitt, Incest and Inbreeding Avoidance: A Critique of Darwinian Social Science, 2005: 215 and Leavitt, `Disappearance of the Incest Taboo', American Anthropologist, 1989) and those who advance Darwinian selection principles (human sociobiology, Darwinian social science, behavioral genetics, or evolutionary psychology) have o…
The Power of Materialist-Environmental Explanations
The incest taboo has been the subject of much curiosity since the mid-19th century. While the taboo and its violation have consumed much attention especially concerning the abuse of children, other scholars have focused on the origin of the incest taboo. This focus on origin created a division between those who ascribed to Darwin’s selection theory and those who recognized environmental conditions. In the latter case what has been underdeveloped …
Sociology (9 works) · Anthropology (8 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (5 works) · Biology (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Sociocultural evolution (4 works)