Stephen K Sanderson: 9 books
Rethinking Sociological Theory
Introducing and Explaining a Scientific Theoretical Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Stephen K. Sanderson s latest book recaptures a scientific theoretical sociology, one whose fundamental aim is the formulation of real theories that can be empirically tested. Sanderson reviews the major theoretical traditions within contemporary sociology, explicating their key principles, critically...
Social Transformations
A General Theory of Historical Development
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 1999
In Social Transformations: A General Theory of Historical Development Stephen K. Sanderson develops a general theory of social evolution and uses it to explain the most important evolutionary transformations in human history and prehistory. In this expanded edition Sanderson has added a discussion...
by Stephen K. Sanderson
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
If evolution has changed humans physically, has it also affected human behavior? Drawing on evolutionary psychology, sociobiology, and human behavioral ecology, Human Nature and the Evolution of Society explores the evolutionary dynamics underlying social life.
In this introduction to human...
Religious Evolution and the Axial Age
From Shamans to Priests to Prophets
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Religious Evolution and the Axial Age describes and explains the evolution of religion over the past ten millennia. It shows that an overall evolutionary sequence can be observed, running from the spirit and shaman dominated religions of small-scale societies, to the archaic religions of the ancient...
Revolutions
A Worldwide Introduction to Political and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
This expanded, updated edition of Revolutions offers a new chapter on terrorism and on social movements, including jihadism. Revolutions and state breakdowns are the primary focus as Sanderson presents prominent theories and describes the process of revolutions. The book covers famous revolutions...
Conflict Sociology
A Sociological Classic Updated
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
This new edition is a substantial abridgment and update of Randall Collins's 1975 classic, Conflict Sociology. The first edition represented the most powerful and comprehensive statement of conflict theory in its time. Here, Sanderson has retained the core chapters and added discussions on Collins's...
Modern Societies
A Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Sanderson explores the nature of the contemporary world’s 200 societies by comparing and contrasting their basic institutions and patterns of social organization. Major topics include the rich democracies and how they became rich and democratic; the expansion of government and the welfare state;...
Evolutionism and Its Critics
Deconstructing and Reconstructing an Evolutionary Interpretation of Human Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Evolutionism and Its Critics is a critical history of evolutionary theories in the social sciences and a defense of them against their many critics. Sanderson deconstructs not only the wide array of social evolutionary theories, but the criticisms of the antievolutionists. Deconstructing evolutionary...
Studying Societies and Cultures
Marvin Harris's Cultural Materialism and its Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
"A thought-provoking, stimulating volume on the past, present and future of cultural materialism that is both laudatory of Harris' research strategy and critical of it." Paul Shankman, University of Colorado One of the most important anthropologists of all time, Marvin Harris was influential...