Category: Sociology

Events:

August 15, 2024

Examined Lives: Social Norms (Session 47)

In this session of Examined Lives, we will explore social norms from an evolutionary perspective.

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Articles:

January 26, 2021

Why Immigration Drives Innovation

U.S. immigration is but one example of how the interactions of many diverse minds—our collective brains—drive innovation and ultimately economic growth.

Psychology

Sociology

December 9, 2020

The Epidemic and the Epistemic: An Exercise in Evolutionary Sociology

The present pandemic is a stark reminder that humans are, first and foremost, biological beings – as vulnerable to environmental and evolved threats as is any other organism.

Sociology

November 2, 2020

Evolution Does Not Explain Tyranny: COVID-19 Could Have Led To Many Fewer Deaths If Tyranny Had Been Less Prevalent in Washington, D.C.

In times of public health crisis, political leaders need to suppress dysfunctional personality traits and instead rely on and uphold public health experts.

Sociology

October 26, 2020

From the Middle: Sites of Culture, Cooperation, and Trust in Risk Society

Democracy will live or die depending on its ability to respond to twenty-first-century hazards.

Sociology

October 12, 2020

How Covid-19 Reminds Us We Are More Alike Than Different

Genetic differences between individuals within groups are much greater than any average differences between groups of individuals.

Health

Sociology

September 14, 2020

For God’s Sake! What’s All This Fuss About a Virus?

The success (or failure) that societies have had in the wake of COVID-19 offers a simple reminder that the success of Homo sapiens has been essentially a cooperative enterprise.

Health

Sociology

September 7, 2020

Gene-Culture and Potential Culture-Gene Coevolution: The Future of COVID-19

Just as COVID-19's genes initially selected for changes in our culture, in the future those changes in culture could in turn select for changes in their genes.

Sociology

August 31, 2020

The Coronavirus in Evolutionary Perspective

Humans evolved social potential to cooperate with others will eventually ignite a collective response to fight COVID-19 around the globe.

Biology

Sociology

August 24, 2020

Institutionalization of Animal Welfare and the Evolution of Coronavirus(es)

The current pandemic is an obvious manifestation of the price society has to pay for current practices.

Health

Sociology

August 17, 2020

The Coronavirus Pandemic, Evolutionary Sociology, and Long-Term Economic Growth in the United States

Despite the coronavirus, the per capita growth average should return to normal, just as it did in previous economic crises over the last 150 years.

Economy

Sociology

August 10, 2020

Speculations About Why Sociological Social Psychology Largely Elides Evolutionary Logic

Humans have evolved to favor their in-groups, but who is considered part of the in-group can change across cultures, contexts, and the life course.

Sociology

August 4, 2020

Bringing Neuroscience and Sociology into Dialogue on Emotions to Better Understand Human Behavior

What this potential marriage suggests is there are great possibilities for research, particularly around social relationships.

Biology

Psychology

Sociology

August 3, 2020

Natural and Sociocultural Selection: Analyzing the Failure to Respond to the C-19 Pandemic

Another level of selection is now operating in the social universe: selection on the social structures and cultures of each society.

Sociology

July 28, 2020

Is Video Chat a Sufficient Proxy for Face-to-Face Interaction? Biosociological Reflections on Life during the COVID-19 Pandemic

“Zoom fatigue” and “touch starvation” have evolutionary origins that researchers need to take seriously.

Health

Sociology

July 27, 2020

Social Science Contributions to the Study of Zoonotic Spillover: Normal Accidents and Treadmill Theory

Two approaches help us identify high-risk activities and social processes that heighten the likelihood of zoonotic spillover.

Health

Sociology

July 20, 2020

Debate: Nothing in Sociology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution

It is time for sociologists to engage in a deeper conversation with evolutionary scientists about human origins and human needs.

Sociology