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The Dance of Innovation
Infrastructure, Social Oscillation, and the Evolution of Societies
Taschenbuch von Kevin McCaffree
Sprache: Englisch

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Few of us consider how mundane infrastructures-from electrical grids to sewage systems-have developed over millennia in ways that enable democracy, technological innovation, to individual liberty itself. But what drives the evolution of this infrastructure? And why is infrastructure so critical to human flourishing?

Few of us consider how mundane infrastructures-from electrical grids to sewage systems-have developed over millennia in ways that enable democracy, technological innovation, to individual liberty itself. But what drives the evolution of this infrastructure? And why is infrastructure so critical to human flourishing?

Über den Autor

Kevin McCaffree is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of North Texas. He is the author or co-author of three books, co-editor of Theoretical Sociology: The Future of a Disciplinary Foundation and series editor (with Jonathan H. Turner) of Evolutionary Analysis in the Social Sciences. In addition to these works, he has authored or co-authored more than 20 peer-reviewed journal articles and handbook chapters published on a variety of topics ranging from cultural evolution to criminology to the sociology of empathy.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1. Humans' Genetic Unity and Ape Ancestry
2. Fission-Fusion Oscillation as the Central Sustaining Mechanism of Organismality, Part 1
3. Fission-Fusion Oscillation as the Central Sustaining Mechanism of Organismality, Part 2
4. Intuitive Information Processing
5. On the Important Distinction Between "Tools" and "Infrastructure"
6. The Tools and Infrastructure of Fossil Fuel Societies
7. Cities Drive the Metabolism of Societies
8. An "Oscillation-Infrastructural" Theory of Cultural Evolution

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Fachbereich: Populäre Darstellungen
Genre: Politikwissenschaft & Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 10
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781032209395
ISBN-10: 1032209399
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: McCaffree, Kevin
Hersteller: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Maße: 229 x 152 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: Kevin McCaffree
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.06.2022
Gewicht: 0,442 kg
preigu-id: 120671070
Über den Autor

Kevin McCaffree is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of North Texas. He is the author or co-author of three books, co-editor of Theoretical Sociology: The Future of a Disciplinary Foundation and series editor (with Jonathan H. Turner) of Evolutionary Analysis in the Social Sciences. In addition to these works, he has authored or co-authored more than 20 peer-reviewed journal articles and handbook chapters published on a variety of topics ranging from cultural evolution to criminology to the sociology of empathy.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1. Humans' Genetic Unity and Ape Ancestry
2. Fission-Fusion Oscillation as the Central Sustaining Mechanism of Organismality, Part 1
3. Fission-Fusion Oscillation as the Central Sustaining Mechanism of Organismality, Part 2
4. Intuitive Information Processing
5. On the Important Distinction Between "Tools" and "Infrastructure"
6. The Tools and Infrastructure of Fossil Fuel Societies
7. Cities Drive the Metabolism of Societies
8. An "Oscillation-Infrastructural" Theory of Cultural Evolution

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Fachbereich: Populäre Darstellungen
Genre: Politikwissenschaft & Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 10
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781032209395
ISBN-10: 1032209399
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: McCaffree, Kevin
Hersteller: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Maße: 229 x 152 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: Kevin McCaffree
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.06.2022
Gewicht: 0,442 kg
preigu-id: 120671070
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