LEADER 04133oam 2200493M 450 001 9910782972503321 005 20230126203927.0 010 $a1-351-32019-X 010 $a1-351-32020-3 010 $a1-351-32018-1 035 $a(CKB)1000000000726790 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5265653 035 $a(OCoLC)1004027198 035 $a(OCoLC-P)1004027198 035 $a(FlBoTFG)9781351320191 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000726790 100 $a20170915d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aCrisis in Sociology $ethe Need for Darwin /$fJoseph Lopreato 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aLondon :$cTaylor and Francis,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (278 pages) 311 $a1-138-52155-8 311 $a0-7658-0874-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $tPart, 1 From Early Promise to Deepening Crisis /$rJoseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen --$tchapter 1 The Early Promise /$rJoseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen --$tchapter 2 The Deepening Crisis /$rJoseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen --$tchapter 3 Why the Crisis: A Sketch /$rJoseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen --$tpart, 2 Elements of Evolutionary Theory /$rJoseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen --$tchapter 4 Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection /$rJoseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen --$tchapter 5 Elements of Evolutionary Behavioral Science /$rJoseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen --$tpart, 3 Select Adaptations and Applications /$rJoseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen --$tchapter 6 Fundamentals of Sex Differences /$rJoseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen --$tchapter 7 An Uneasy Alliance /$rJoseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen --$tchapter 8 Fundamentals of Social Stratification /$rJoseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen --$tchapter 9 The Clannish Brain /$rJoseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen. 330 2 $a"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. 606 $aSociology$xResearch 606 $aSocial Darwinism 615 0$aSociology$xResearch. 615 0$aSocial Darwinism. 676 $a301/.07/2 700 $aLopreato$b Joseph$0124923 701 $aCrippen$b Timothy$01563425 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782972503321 996 $aCrisis in Sociology$93831819 997 $aUNINA