From Herbert Spencer on, evolutionary concepts have had a rather checkered history of use and misuse in Sociology and its neighboring Social Sciences. Today, (Neo-)Darwinian reasoning can be found not only in Sociology, but in a variety of disciplines such as Anthropology, Economics, Psychology, Organizational Sciences. We will focus on the diversity of these approaches, their intellectual origins and their conceptual consistency; we will thereby answer the most fundamental questions of concerning this literature: What is explained and what could be explained by evolutionar y theorizing in the social sciences?!
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| 30-M-Soz-M2a Sociological Theory a Soziologische Theorie a | Seminar 1 | Study requirement
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| 30-M-Soz-M2b Sociological Theory b Soziologische Theorie b | Seminar 1 | Study requirement
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| 30-M-Soz-M2c Sociological Theory c Soziologische Theorie c | Seminar 1 | Study requirement
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