For forty years, in a variety of books and articles, Gerhard Lenski has become the most influential proponent of ecological and evolutionary explanations of human societies, their development and transformations, from the Stone Age to the present. In his newest book, Lenski offers a succinct but comprehensive statement of the full body of his theory followed by demonstration of how it can be used to generate new and valuable insights when applied to a set of highly diverse issues. These include debates concerning the origin of ancient Israel and its distinctive culture, the rise of the West in the modern era, the highly varied trajectories of development of Third World nations in recent decades, and the failure of Marxist efforts to transform society in the Soviet Union and elsewhere. In the concluding chapter, Lenski discusses a number of other issues and areas where ecological-evolutionary theory may be fruitfully applied in the future.
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"'Lenski develops a highly refined and nuanced model of society dynamics that incorporates his previous thinking into a new approach. This book must be read not only by those interested in evolution, but all those who seek to explain macrodynamics. This book is a cutting edge analytical model and theory of macro social reality.' Jonathan H. Turner, author of Face to Face: Toward a Sociological Theory of Interpersonal Behavior 'Lenski's masterful integration of empirical data from biology, ecology, the social sciences, and technology provides by far the best theoretical underpinning available for a macro-level approach to the comparison of total societies.' Joan Huber, Ohio State University"
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Gerhard Lenski, is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and author of Ecological-Evolutionary Theory (Paradigm 2006). He is a recipient of the ASA's Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award.
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Soviet Union, Middle East, United States, World War, Marvin Harris, Papua New Guinea, Industrial Revolution, Gordon Childe, Third World, World Development Indicators, Latin America, North Korea, Stone Age, Adult Literacy, Amos Hawley, Enrollment Sec, North America, Talcott Parsons, Upper Paleolithic, Annual Urban Growth, Chapel Hill, Iron Age, Lower Paleolithic, Max Weber, New Testament New!
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One of the more surprising developments in the social sciences in recent decades has been the revival of interest in evolutionary theory. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Soviet Union, Middle East, United States, World War, Marvin Harris, Papua New Guinea, Industrial Revolution, Gordon Childe, Third World, World Development Indicators, Latin America, North Korea, Stone Age, Adult Literacy, Amos Hawley, Enrollment Sec, North America, Talcott Parsons, Upper Paleolithic, Annual Urban Growth, Chapel Hill, Iron Age, Lower Paleolithic, Max Weber, New Testament New!
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- Human Societies, 10th Edition by Gerhard Lenski on 7 pages
- The Elementary Forms of Religious Life by Emile Durkheim on page 126, and Back Matter
- Frontier Folkways by James G. Leyburn on page 158, and Back Matter
- System of Modern Societies (Foundations of Modern Sociology) by Talcott Parsons on page 171, and Back Matter
- Man Makes Himself (New Thinker's Library) (New Thinker's Library) by V. Gordon Childe in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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- Macrosociology: Four Modern Theorists by Frank W. Elwell on page 133, and Back Matter
- Power and Privilege: A Theory of Social Stratification by Gerhard E. Lenski in Front Matter
- Human Societies, 10th Edition by Gerhard Lenski in Back Matter
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