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The dance of innovation : infrastructure, social oscillation, and the evolution of societies / Kevin McCaffree.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCaffree, Kevin J., 1985- author.
- Series:
- Evolutionary analysis in the social sciences
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Technological innovations.
- Technology--Social aspects.
- Technology.
- Infrastructure (Economics).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (328 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2022.
- Biography/History:
- Kevin McCaffree is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of North Texas. He is the author or co-author of three books, co-editor of Theoretical Sociology: The Future of a Disciplinary Foundation and series editor (with Jonathan H. Turner) of Evolutionary Analysis in the Social Sciences. In addition to these works, he has authored or co-authored more than 20 peer-reviewed journal articles and handbook chapters published on a variety of topics ranging from cultural evolution to criminology to the sociology of empathy.
- Contents:
- Introduction1. Humans' Genetic Unity and Ape Ancestry2. Fission-Fusion Oscillation as the Central Sustaining Mechanism of Organismality, Part 13. Fission-Fusion Oscillation as the Central Sustaining Mechanism of Organismality, Part 24. Intuitive Information Processing5. On the Important Distinction Between "Tools" and "Infrastructure"6. The Tools and Infrastructure of Fossil Fuel Societies7. Cities Drive the Metabolism of Societies8. An "Oscillation-Infrastructural" Theory of Cultural Evolution
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Title details screen.
- ISBN:
- 9781003266020
- 1003266029
- 9781000545180
- 1000545180
- 9781000545197
- 1000545199
- Publisher Number:
- 99993744731
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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