This major theoretical work takes existing work on the emotions in significantly new directions. It gives a comprehensive account of emotions ...

For decades, evolutionary analysis was overlooked or altogether ignored by sociologists. Fears and biases persisted nearly a century after Auguste ...

Written by leading theorists and empirical researchers, this book presents new ways of addressing the old question: Why did religion first emerge and ...

In this book, Jonathan H. Turner combines sociology, evolutionary biology, cladistic analysis from biology, and comparative neuroanatomy to examine human ...

Kinship, religion, and economy were not "natural" to humans, nor to species of apes that had to survive on the African savanna. Society from its very beginnings ...

Autor analizuje strukturę i stan współczesnej teorii socjologicznej. Omawia wszystkie liczące się teorie socjologiczne, które ...

Micro-level dynamics revolve around face-to-face interactions among individuals. What occurs within encounters is constrained by their embedding with ...

In a general study of Sociological Theory, social processes are usually broken down into three tiers: macrodynamics (societies and large-scale institutions) ...