dc.identifier.uri |
http://dx.doi.org/10.15488/16120 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
https://www.repo.uni-hannover.de/handle/123456789/16247 |
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dc.contributor.author |
Valković, Martina
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dc.date.accessioned |
2024-02-06T06:02:19Z |
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dc.date.available |
2024-02-06T06:02:19Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2023 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Valković, M.: Ontological and Methodological Limitations of Certain Cultural Evolution Approaches. In: Philosophy of the Social Sciences (2023), online first. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/00483931231208512 |
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dc.description.abstract |
Recently there has been a rise in the application of concepts and methods from biological evolutionary theory to human cultures and societies where the aim is to explain these by describing them as population-level phenomena reducible to individual-level processes. I argue against this type of view by using Mesoudi's Cultural Evolution as a case study. I claim that Mesoudi’s ontological assumptions about cultures and societies are dubious and his methodological assumptions inadequate when it comes to addressing cultural and social phenomena. A consequence is that this approach to studying culture is, at the very least, incomplete and of limited application. |
eng |
dc.language.iso |
eng |
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dc.publisher |
Thousand Oaks, Calif. [u.a.] : Sage |
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dc.relation.ispartofseries |
Philosophy of the Social Sciences (2023), online first |
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dc.rights |
CC BY 4.0 Unported |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
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dc.subject |
cultural evolutionary theory |
eng |
dc.subject |
individualism |
eng |
dc.subject |
methodology |
eng |
dc.subject |
reductionism |
eng |
dc.subject |
social ontology |
eng |
dc.subject.ddc |
300 | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
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dc.title |
Ontological and Methodological Limitations of Certain Cultural Evolution Approaches |
eng |
dc.type |
Article |
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dc.type |
Text |
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dc.relation.essn |
1552-7441 |
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dc.relation.issn |
0048-3931 |
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dc.relation.doi |
https://doi.org/10.1177/00483931231208512 |
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dc.description.version |
publishedVersion |
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tib.accessRights |
frei zug�nglich |
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