The myth of culture : why we need a genuine natural science of societies / by Nigel Barber.
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TextPublication details: Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 310 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
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- 9781443811743
- 1443811742
- Social evolution
- Human evolution
- Social Darwinism
- Cultural Evolution
- Évolution sociale
- Homme -- Évolution
- Darwinisme social
- Social Darwinism
- Social theory
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture
- Human evolution
- Social Darwinism
- Social evolution
- 306 22
- HM626 .B38 2008eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-304) and index.
Teapots in heaven, phlogiston on earth -- The emptiness of moral explanations -- Replacing moralism with science -- Stitching up the fabric of evolutionary time -- If culture is a myth, why is religion so dangerous? -- Enemies of evolutionary social science -- Evolutionary science is empirical and practical, not "speculative" and "just so" -- Wounds that time can't heal -- Looking beyond the individual -- What evolutionary theory can and cannot do -- Appendix : Subjective science? Sociology lurches into philosophy.
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Before oxygen's discovery, scientists invoked a mysterious inner principle of fire to account for burning. Today, scholars appeal to an analogously unscientific inner principle, known as culture, to account for human actions. So what is wrong with cult.
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