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18 - Unities Within Conflict: Mapping Biology’s Relevance to Sociological Theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 December 2020

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Douglas A. Marshall
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Peter Kivisto
Peter Kivisto
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Augustana College, Illinois
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Sociology’s long-standing animosity toward the overt inclusion of biological concepts and data in its explanations belies the essential unities between the two disciplines. This chapter maps those historical, ontological, continuous, analogous, and topic unities, and argues that they make the explicit incorporation of biological and evolutionary insight indispensable for the future of sociological theory.The provision or pursuit of anything less than complete, biologically informed explanations for the social is a luxury that sociology can no longer afford.

Biology, biosociology, consilience, evolutionary sociology, sociological theory

Doug Marshall is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Honors Education at the University of South Alabama.He is currently at work on Sociology Distilled: Science, Force, and Structure, a supplemental text for introductory sociology, and a monograph, The Moral Origins of God: Darwin, Durkheim, and Homo Duplex.

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The Cambridge Handbook of Social Theory , pp. 354 - 378
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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