A treatise on social theory. Vol. 2, Substantive social theory /

A treatise on social theory. Vol. 2, Substantive social theory /

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Author / Creator:Runciman, W. G. (Walter Garrison), 1934-
Imprint:Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Description:1 online resource (xiii, 493 pages).
Language:English
Series:A treatise on social theory ; vol. 2
Runciman, W. G. (Walter Garrison), 1934- Treatise on social theory ; v. 2.
Subject:
Sociology -- Methodology.
Sociology -- Philosophy.
Social sciences -- Methodology.
Social sciences -- Philosophy.
Social structure -- England -- History -- 20th century.
Social conditions
Social sciences -- Methodology.
Social sciences -- Philosophy.
Social structure.
Sociology -- Methodology.
Sociology -- Philosophy.
England -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
England.
History.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11114316
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ISBN:0521369835
9780521369831
0521249597
9780521249591
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:Annotation. This second of three volumes sets out a general account of the structure and evolution of human societies. The author argues first that societies are to be defined as sets of roles whose incumbents are competitors for access to, or control of, the means of production, persuasion and coercion; and second, that the process by which societies evolve is one of competitive selection of the practices by which roles are defined analagous, but not reducible, to natural selection. He illustrates and tests these theses with evidence drawn from the whole range of societies documented in the historical and ethnographic record. The result is an original, powerful and far-reaching reformulation of evolutionary sociological theory which will make it possible to do for the classification and analysis of societies what Darwin and his successors have done for the classification and analysis of species.
Other form:Print version: Runciman, W.G. (Walter Garrison), 1934- Treatise on social theory. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1983-1997 0521249066

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