Presentist Social Functionalism: Bringing Contemporary Evolutionary Biology to the Social Sciences (Hardcover)

Langue : anglais

Edité par Springer International Publishing AG, Cham, 2025

3031948327 / 9783031948329

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Hardcover. This open access book presents and defends a new approach towards social functionalism: Presentist Social Functionalism. This approach draws on recent developments in evolutionary biology and philosophy of biology to provide a more compelling theoretical foundation for functionalist social analysis. Functionalist approaches to the social scienceswhich aim at using facts about what social institutions are for to provide a fulcrum with which to understand, evaluate, and respond to social realityare about as old as the subject itself, but have also been the subject of much criticism. In particular, a widespread concern for the functionalist tradition in the social sciences is that functional ascriptions often lack a plausible theoretical grounding, and that where such a theoretical grounding can be provided, the empirical presuppositions of this grounding often fail to be met. However, recent developments in evolutionary biology and the philosophy of biology promise to change this situation: they show that functional ascription can be compellingly made in an ahistorical, non-reproduction-based, and non-normative manner, which makes it possible to develop a new account of social functionalism that can fulfil the latters theoretical and empirical desiderata. To show this, the book begins by laying out the major existing accounts of social functionalism and detailing their challenges. It then develops the new, alternative account of Presentist Social Functionalism. Given its interdisciplinary nature and application-focused approach, the book is of interest to researchers in a variety of fields, from evolutionary biology to the social sciences and philosophy. Functionalist approaches to the social scienceswhich aim at using facts about what social institutions are for to provide a fulcrum with which to understand, evaluate, and respond to social realityare about as old as the subject itself, but have also been the subject of much criticism. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Titre
Presentist Social Functionalism: Bringing Contemporary Evolutionary Biology to the Social Sciences (Hardcover)
Auteur
Armin W. Schulz
Éditeur
Springer International Publishing AG, Cham
Année de publication
2025
État de l'article
new
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
3031948327
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9783031948329

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