1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910511334103321

Autore

Lopreato Joseph

Titolo

Crisis in Sociology : the Need for Darwin / / Joseph Lopreato

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Taylor and Francis, , 2017

ISBN

1-351-32019-X

1-351-32020-3

1-351-32018-1

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

CrippenTimothy

Disciplina

301/.07/2

Soggetti

Sociology - Research

Social Darwinism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Part, 1 From Early Promise to Deepening Crisis / Joseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen -- chapter 1 The Early Promise / Joseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen -- chapter 2 The Deepening Crisis / Joseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen -- chapter 3 Why the Crisis: A Sketch / Joseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen -- part, 2 Elements of Evolutionary Theory / Joseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen -- chapter 4 Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection / Joseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen -- chapter 5 Elements of Evolutionary Behavioral Science / Joseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen -- part, 3 Select Adaptations and Applications / Joseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen -- chapter 6 Fundamentals of Sex Differences / Joseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen -- chapter 7 An Uneasy Alliance / Joseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen -- chapter 8 Fundamentals of Social Stratification / Joseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen -- chapter 9 The Clannish Brain / Joseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen.

Sommario/riassunto

"Crisis in Sociology presents a compelling portrait of sociology's current troubles and proposes a controversial remedy. In the authors' view, sociology's crisis has deep roots, traceable to the over-ambitious sweep of the discipline's founders. Generations of sociologists have failed to focus effectively on the tasks necessary to build a social science. The authors see sociology's most disabling flaw in the failure



to discover even a single general law or principle. This makes it impossible to systematically organize empirical observations, guide inquiry by suggesting falsifiable hypotheses, or form the core of a genuinely cumulative body of knowledge. Absent such a theoretical tool, sociology can aspire to little more than an amorphous mass of hunches and disconnected facts. The condition engenders confusion and unproductive debate. It invites fragmentation and predation by applied social disciplines, such as business administration, criminal justice, social work, and urban studies. Even more dangerous are incursions by prestigious social sciences and by branches of evolutionary biology that constitute the frontier of the current revolution in behavioral science. Lopreato and Crippen argue that unless sociology takes into account central developments in evolutionary science, it will not survive as an academic discipline. Crisis in Sociology argues that participation in the "new social science," exemplified by thriving new fields such as evolutionary psychology, will help to build a vigorous, scientific sociology. The authors analyze research on such subjects as sex roles, social stratification, and ethnic conflict, showing how otherwise disconnected features of the sociological landscape can in fact contribute to a theoretically coherent and cumulative body of knowledge."--Provided by publisher.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456021103321

Autore

Fabb Nigel

Titolo

Language and literary structure : the linguistic analysis of form in verse and narrative / / Nigel Fabb [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002

ISBN

1-107-13005-0

0-511-14808-9

0-511-48702-9

0-511-04719-3

0-511-33021-9

0-511-17767-4

0-521-79294-0

1-280-43296-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 230 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

421/.6

Soggetti

English language - Versification

Narration (Rhetoric)

Literary form

Poetics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-226) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

1. Literary form -- 2. Generated metrical form -- 3. Communicated form -- 4. The communication of metre -- 5. Lines -- 6. Line-groups in metrical verse and in narrative -- 7. Complexity.

Sommario/riassunto

How does a literary text get to have literary form, and what is the relation between literary form and linguistic form? This theoretical study of linguistic structure in literature focuses on verse and narrative from a linguistic perspective. Nigel Fabb provides a simple and realistic linguistic explanation of poetic form in English from 1500-1900, drawing on the English and American verse and oral narrative tradition, as well as contemporary criticism. In recent years literary theory has paid relatively little attention to form; this book argues that form is interesting. Fabb offers a new linguistic approach to how metre and



rhythm work in poetry, based on pragmatic theory and provides a pragmatic explanation of formal ambiguity and indeterminacy and their aesthetic effects. He also uses linguistics to examine the experience of poetry. Language and Literary Structure will be welcomed by students and researchers in linguistics, literary theory and stylistics.