The Evolution of Social Constructs: A Proposal for the Re-Conceptualization of Sociobiology for Understanding Interdependent Social Networks as Evolving “Organisms” Using Norbert Elias’s, The Court Society

volution by natural selection applied by sociologists has been met with great resistance since Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), marked by dark notions of power and authority associated with an uncritical and enthusiastic application of natural selection to fashionable notions of race and priv...

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Main Author: Anthony Nairn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Big History Association 2019-01-01
Series:Journal of Big History
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Online Access:https://jbh.journals.villanova.edu/index.php/JBH/article/view/2340/2267