Evolution

Books:

Bachofen. Myth, Religion, and Mother Right (1992, in German 1961);  

     -     An English Translation of Bachoffen's Mutterrecht (Mother Right) (1861): A Study of the Religious and Juridical Aspects of Gynecocracy in the Ancient World (2007).

Baldwin. Development and Evolution (1902);

Bellah. Religion in Human Evolution: From Paleolithic to the Axial Age (2011).

Boserup. Population and Technological Change: A Study of Long-Term Trends (1981). 

Chafetz. Sex and Advantage: A Comparative Macro-Structural Theory of Sexual Stratification (1984);

Chase-Dunn. Rise and Demise: Comparing World – Systems (1997);

     -     The Historical Evolution of World-Systems (2005);

     -     Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives (2006);

     -     Social Change: Globalization from the Stone Age to the Present (2013);

     -     Overcoming Global Inequalities (2016).

     -     Global Struggles and Social Change: From Prehistory to World Revolution in the Twenty-First Century (2020);

Comte. Introduction to Positive Philosophy, 1988, in French (1830-1842);

Durkheim. Division Of Labor In Society (2014, in French 1893);

     -     The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (2012 , in French 1912);

Engels. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (2010, in German 1884);

Gellner. Plough, Sword and the Book: The Strucuture of Human History (1988);

Gilman. Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution (1898);

Grinin. „The Early State and its Analogues”, in Social Evolution & History (2004a);

     -     Макроэволюция в живой природе и обществе (2008); 

     -     Chiefdoms: Тheories, Problems, and Comparisons (2011);

     -     The Evolution of Statehood: From Early States to Global Society (2011);

Gumplovicz. Outlines of Sociology (2020, in German 1885).

Haraway. A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century (1985):

Hawley. Human Ecology: A Theory of Community Structure (1950);

Hobhouse. Mind in Evolution (1901);

     -     Morals in Evolution (1906);

     -     The Material Culture and Social Institutions of the Simpler Peoples (1915);

     -     The Metaphysical Theory of the State: A Criticism (1918);

     -     Social Development: its Nature and Conditions (1924).

Kidd. Social Evolution (1894);

Kovalevski. Modern Customs and Ancient Laws of Russia; Being the Ichester Lectures for 1889-90 (2010).

Kropotkin. The State: Its Historic Role (1897);

     -     Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902);

Lenski. Power and Privilege (1966); 

     -     Human Societies (1970);

     -     Ecological-Evolutionary Theory (2006); 

Lombroso. Criminal Woman, the Prostitute, and the Normal Woman (2004);

     -     Criminal Man (2006, in Italian 1876);

Lopreato. Human Nature and Biocultural Evolution (1984);

     -     Crisis in Sociology: The Need for Darwin (1999). 

Luhmann. Social Systems (1995, in German 1984);

Mauss. Sacrifice: its Nature and Funciton (1964, in French 1899);

     -     A General Theory of Magic (2001, in French 1902a);

     -     Primitive Classification (1967, in French 1902b);

Mead. Mind, Self, and Society: From the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist (1934);

Oppenheimer. The State (2018, in German 1907);

Parsons. Societies: Evolutionary and Comparative Perspectives (1966);

     -     The System of Modern Societies (1971);

Runciman. A Treatise on Social Theory, vol. 2: Substantive Social Theory (1989);

     -     The Social Animal (1998);

     -     The Theory of Cultural and Social Selection (2009).

Sanderson. Social Evolutionism: A Critical History (1990);

     -     Social Transformations: A General Theory of Historical Development (1995);

     -     The Evolution of Human Sociality: A Darwinian Conflict Perspective (2001);

     -     World Societies: The Evolution of Human Social Life (2005);

     -     Revolutions: A Worldwide Introduction to Social and Political Contention (2005);

     -     Studying Societies and Cultures: Marvin Harris's Cultural Materialism and Its Legacy (2007);

     -     Evolutionism and Its Critics (2007);

     -     Conflict Sociology (2009);

     -     Human Nature and the Evolution of Society (2014);

     -     Religious Evolution and the Axial Age (2018).

Spencer. Principles of Psychology, 2 vols. (1855);

     -     The Study of Sociology (1873);

     -     Principles of Sociology, 3 vols. (1876-1896);

Sumner. Folkways (1906); 

     -     The Science of Society, 4 Vols. (1927-1928).

Thomas W. Primitive Behavior: An Introduction to the Social Sciences (1936);

Tönnies. Community and Society (2021, in German 1887);

Turner H. The Social Cage: Human Nature and the Evolution of Society (1992);

     -     Macrodynamics: Toward a Theory on the Organization of Human Populations (1995);

     -     On the Origins of Human Emotions (2000);

     -     Human Institutions: A Theory of Societal Evolution (2003);

     -     Sociology of Emotions (2005);

     -     On The Origins of Human Society by Natural Selection (2008);

     -     Theoretical Principles of Sociology, 3 vols (2010-2012);

     -     Handbook of Evolution and Society: Toward an Evolutionary Social Science (2015);

     -     The Emergence and the Evolution of Religions: By Means of Natural Selection (2018);

     -     On Human Nature (2021); 

     -     The First Institutional Spheres in Human Societies: Evolution and Adaptations from Foraging to the Threshold of Modernity (2022).

Van den Berghe. „Bringing Beasts Back In: Toward a Biosocial Theory of Aggression”, in American Sociological Review (1974);

     -     Man in Society: A Biosocial View (1975);

     -     Inclusive Fitness and Human Family Structure (1977);

     -     Human Family Systems: An Evolutionary View (1979);

Ward. Neo-Darwinism and Neo-Lamarckism (1891);

     -     The Psychic Factors of Civilization (1893); 

     -     Outlines of Sociology (1898); 

     -     Pure Sociology (1903);

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