The First Institutional Spheres in Human Societies: Evolution and Adaptations from Foraging to the Threshold of Modernity Abrutyn Seth
The First Institutional Spheres in Human Societies: Evolution and Adaptations from Foraging to the Threshold of Modernity Abrutyn Seth Few concepts are as central to sociology as institutions. This…
Specifikacia The First Institutional Spheres in Human Societies: Evolution and Adaptations from Foraging to the Threshold of Modernity Abrutyn Seth
The First Institutional Spheres in Human Societies: Evolution and Adaptations from Foraging to the Threshold of Modernity Abrutyn Seth
Few concepts are as central to sociology as institutions. This book expands a foundational definition of the institution, one which locates them as the basic building blocks of human societies - as structural and cultural machines for survival that make it possible to pass precious knowledge from one generation to the next, ensuring the survival of our species. Yet, like so many sociological concepts, institutions remain vaguely defined.
The authors incorporate insights from natural sciences often marginalized in sociology, while highlighting the limitations of purely biogenetic, Darwinian explanations. The book extends this classic tradition by, first, applying advances in biological evolution, neuroscience, and primatology to explain the origins of human societies and, in particular, the first institutional sphere: kinship. Secondly, they build a vivid conceptual model of