NEO-DARWINIAN APPROACHES IN THE SOCIAL-SCIENCES - UNWARRANTED CONCERNS AND MISCONCEPTIONS

被引：2

作者：

CRIPPEN, T

机构：

[1] Mary Washington College, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Fredericksburg

来源：

SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES | 1994年 / 37卷 / 03期

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D O I：

10.2307/1389503

中图分类号：

C91 [社会学];

学科分类号：

030301 ; 1204 ;

摘要：

Sociologists have been unusually reluctant to incorporate into their explanatory systems the theoretical insights of evolutionary biology, behavioral ecology, and population genetics. This skepticism toward genuinely evolutionary approaches is expressed, to varying degrees, in the reactions of Freese and Maryanski to my essay on neo-Darwinian sociology. In this brief response to their comments, I suggest that these general reservations are grounded in an unnecessary fear of resurgent Social Darwinism, unwarranted concerns regarding determinism and reductionism, unjustified allegations of teleology and tautology, and/or general misconceptions of the logic and principles of neo-Darwinian theory.

引用

页码：391 / 401

页数：11

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