Written by award-winning scholar Jonathan H Turner, this 936 page resource is a comprehensive, in-depth and detailed review of both classical and present-day theory in sociology.
Combining sociology, evolutionary biology, cladistic biology, and comparative neuroanatomy to examine human nature, Turner sees human... Læs mere
Rich and multi-dimensional study of long-standing taboo.
Those who address conflict resulting from differing socio-economic groups (stratification systems) focus on the arousal of negative emotions
Kinship, religion, and economy were not 'natural' to humans, nor to species of apes that had to survive on the African savanna. This book dispels many myths about the beginning of society to gain fresh understandings of the many pressures on societies.
However, while world-systems analysis has emphasized this latter point, the authors argue the reluctance to theorize complex abstract models and systems... Læs mere
In a general study of Sociological Theory, social processes are usually broken down into three tiers: macrodynamics (societies and large-scale institutions), microdynamics (interpersonal encounters), and mesodynamics (corporations, communities, smaller organizations).
What occurs within encounters is constrained by their embedding with corporate and categoric units and, by extension, institutional domains,... Læs mere