Comments on: Evolution and Qualitative Sociology

By: Luis Enrique

Luis Enrique — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:59:53 +0000

There are quite a few articles wich address the possible convergence between the social sciences and the biological sciences:

BARKING UP THE WRONG BRANCH: Scientific Alternatives to the Current Model of Sociological Science from Lieberson and Lynn. Annual Review of Sociology 2002.

Taking evolution seriously from Steinmo and Lewis (work in progress)

Transforming socio-economics with a new epistemology from Hollingsworth and Muller, and the debate with Boyer et al. Socio-economic review.

There are more things, but these are the ones I remeber right now. I hope they are useful.

By: cookiecrumbles

cookiecrumbles — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:14:38 +0000

Gregory Bateson 1904-1980) spent his life working out such orders of connection and levels of problem with great aplumb. The implications range well past sociology or qualitative sociology. Would be interesting to examine the conenctions between Streeck and Bateson and if the former is aware of the latter.

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By: jon

jon — Sun, 10 May 2009 22:03:05 +0000

I think much of this has to do with sociologists—and more qualitative and culturally-oriented sociologists in particular—being so averse to evolutionary thinking with respect to human social behavior. Of course, humans are just a small speck of what evolutionary biology is about, but sociologists seem to have such a caricatured view of evolution out of reaction against sociobiology, evolutionary psych, etc. that they just don’t seem very willing to learn much about the field as a whole. Which is a shame, because, as you say, I think there’s a lot to learn there. Also, for whatever reason, evolution biology has some of the most eloquent spokespeople out there & there’s just some great reading available for those interested in an overview.

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