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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, amidst our daily chores and responsibilities, consider how mundane infrastructures-from electrical grids to sewage systems-have developed over millennia in ways that enable everything we cherish, from democracy to technological innovation to individual liberty. But what drives the evolution of this infrastructure? And why is infrastructure so critical to human flourishing? In this book, the most innovative and interdisciplinary study of cultural evolution ever produced, new concepts are explored, new histories are brought into contact and new ground-breaking insights are defended. What makes creativity unique in human societies is not only our capacity to generate and modify our diverse individual intuitions about the social and physical world, but also our capacity to form and leave groups fluidly in a dancing rhythm of oscillation across the expanse of history. This book walks the reader carefully through these processes, with clear concepts and an approachable writing style.
Few of us, amidst our daily chores and responsibilities, consider how mundane infrastructures-from electrical grids to sewage systems-have developed over millennia in ways that enable everything we cherish, from democracy to technological innovation to individual liberty. But what drives the evolution of this infrastructure? And why is infrastructure so critical to human flourishing? In this book, the most innovative and interdisciplinary study of cultural evolution ever produced, new concepts are explored, new histories are brought into contact and new ground-breaking insights are defended. What makes creativity unique in human societies is not only our capacity to generate and modify our diverse individual intuitions about the social and physical world, but also our capacity to form and leave groups fluidly in a dancing rhythm of oscillation across the expanse of history. This book walks the reader carefully through these processes, with clear concepts and an approachable writing style.
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
Genre: Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781032209395
ISBN-10: 1032209399
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: McCaffree, Kevin
Hersteller: Routledge
Maße: 229 x 152 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Kevin McCaffree
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.06.2022
Gewicht: 0,443 kg
Artikel-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
Genre: Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781032209395
ISBN-10: 1032209399
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: McCaffree, Kevin
Hersteller: Routledge
Maße: 229 x 152 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Kevin McCaffree
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.06.2022
Gewicht: 0,443 kg
Artikel-ID: 120671070
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