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- Title
DARWINISMO Y CIENCIAS SOCIALES: UNA INTERPRETACIÓN EVOLUCIONISTA DE LA CULTURA.
- Authors
NOGUEIRA, LAUREANO CASTRO; NOGUEIRA, LUIS CASTRO; ÁNGEL CASTRO NOGUEIRA, MIGUEL; ÁNGEL TORO, MIGUEL
- Abstract
Darwin's attempt to analyze human culture and behavior from a naturalistic point of view was not well received by most of the thinkers responsible for the foundations of the standard model in social sciences. However, in the last years the Darwinian proposal has been taking again seriously in several disciplines trying to examine culture from an evolutionary perspective. From these attempts the dual inheritance theory of the anthropologists R. Boyd and P. Richerson is the most promising in bringing together the sociological explanations and the Darwinian approach. In this article, we analyze the basic elements of their model, tracking the origin of the conflict between their ideas and those of the father of sociology E. Durkheim. In the final part of the article, we criticize this model and present an alternative one based in what we have called assessor social learning.
- Subjects
HUMAN behavior; CULTURE; SOCIAL sciences; BOYD, R.; RICHERSON, P.
- Publication
Ludus Vitalis, 2009, Vol 17, Issue 32, p281
- ISSN
1133-5165
- Publication type
Article