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Author Bruggeman, Jeroen

Title A Sociology of Humankind How We Are Formed by Culture, Cooperation, and Conflict
Published Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2024

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Description 1 online resource (241 p.)
Series Routledge Advances in Sociology Series
Routledge Advances in Sociology Series
Contents Cover -- Endrosements Page -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Cultural Dynamics -- 1.2 Goals and Means -- 1.2.1 Patterns, Principles, and Models -- 1.3 Cultural Evolution: A Reprise -- 1.3.1 Combination -- 1.3.2 Selection -- 1.3.3 Environment -- 2 Forager Societies -- 2.1 Dispersion -- 2.2 Networks -- 2.3 Practices and Culture -- 3 Cooperation -- 3.1 Shared Intentionality -- 3.2 Collective Action -- 3.3 The Evolution of Cooperation -- 3.4 Cooperation with Strangers
3.5 Dyadic Cooperation -- 3.6 Thick Reputations -- 4 Agricultural Societies -- 4.1 Consequences of Agriculture -- 4.2 Social Inequality -- 4.3 Moralistic Religions -- 4.4 America and Africa -- 4.5 Cooperation Revisited -- 4.6 Cultural Evolution and Complexity -- 4.7 Environment, Culture, and Genes -- 5 Conflict -- 5.1 Patterns and Principles -- 5.1.1 Constraint -- 5.1.2 Collective Conflict -- 5.1.3 Conflicts Between Three or More Factions -- 5.2 Wars and Institutions -- 5.3 Protests and Revolts -- 6 Imperialism and Industrialization -- 6.1 Europe's Conquests -- 6.2 Warfare and Bureaucracy
6.3 Nationalism -- 6.4 Industrial Revolution -- 6.5 Organizations -- 6.6 Industrial Society and its Tensions -- 6.7 Imperialism and Nationalism -- 6.8 The Whole World at War -- 6.9 Consequences of the World Wars -- 6.10 Innovation by Teams -- 6.11 Globalization and Rising Inequality -- 6.12 Protests, Revolts, and Wars Revisited -- 6.13 Environmental Degradation and New Pandemics -- 7 Digital Society -- 7.1 (Self)Deception and Radicalization -- 7.2 Polarization and Democracy -- 8 Models -- 8.1 Social Influence and Cohesion -- 8.1.1 Influence -- 8.1.2 Polarization -- 8.1.3 Social Cohesion
8.1.4 Power Centrality -- 8.1.5 Power in Inter-Polity Dynamics -- 8.2 Cooperation for Public Goods -- 8.2.1 Social Balance -- 8.3 Cultural Evolution -- 8.3.1 Combination -- 8.3.2 Selection -- 8.3.3 Environment -- 8.3.4 Generalizations -- 8.4 Appendix -- 9 Conclusions -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary Grounded in empirical findings from archaeology, history, lab-experiments and field studies - and supplemented with computational network models - this book extends the theory of cultural evolution, proposing a sociology of humankind that connects all people throughout history in a giant socio-cultural network spanning 300 millennia
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ISBN 9781003857013
1003857019