Electronic Resource
Oxford, UK and Boston, USA
:
Blackwell Publishers Ltd
Journal for the theory of social behaviour
31 (2001), S. 0
ISSN:
1468-5914
Source:
Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
Topics:
Psychology
,
Sociology
Notes:
The essay criticizes an alleged new paradigm for explaining sociocultural change: selectionism. Part one describes the general selectionist explanatory schema, which selectionists claim applies to realms beyond the biological, in particular, the sociocultural. Part two focuses on the way most selectionists, in focusing on cultural change alone, wrongly separate culture from society. Particular atten-tion is paid to the accounts these selectionists offer of human action. Part three fills out a conception of the sociocultural, the need for which is indicated by the arguments of the previous section. Part four then criticizes existing social (as opposed to cultural) selectionist accounts of sociocultural change, again focusing on the role of human action. The conclusion is that selectionism does not offer a new explanatory paradigm, but is only a label for a class of accounts that highlight the role of contextualized agency in explaining social change.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-5914.00164
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