A Treatise on Social Theory

Volume 2, Substantive Social Theory

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2098717
AutoresW G Runciman (autor correspondente)
Ano1989
Data de publicação1989-02-02
Open AccessSim
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoTreatise on Social Theory (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511583469
OpenAlexW648474899
Open LibraryOL7734300M
ISBN9780511583469
GOOGLE_BOOK_ID298Sa79fkRkC
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas106

This second of three volumes sets out a general account of the structure and evolution of human societies. The author argues first that societies are to be defined as sets of roles whose incumbents are competitors for access to, or control of, the means of production, persuasion and coercion; and second, that the process by which societies evolve is one of competitive selection of the practices by which roles are defined analagous, but not reducible, to natural selection. He illustrates and tests these theses with evidence drawn from the whole range of societies documented in the historical and ethnographic record. The result is an original, powerful and far-reaching reformulation of evolutionary sociological theory which will make it possible to do for the classification and analysis of societies what Darwin and his successors have done for the classification and analysis of species

Coercion (linguistics) · Competitor analysis · Darwin (ADL) · Darwinism · Economics · Epistemology · Natural selection · Persuasion · Process (computing) · Selection (genetic algorithm) · Social evolution · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology