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Evolutionary psychology is an important and rapidly expanding area in the life, social, and behavioral sciences, and this Handbook represents the most comprehensive and up-to-date reference text in the field today. Chapters in this Handbook address theory and research that integrates evolutionary psychology with other life, social, and behavioral sciences, as well as with the humanities. The SAGE Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology is an essential resource for researchers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduate students in all areas of psychology, and in related disciplines across the life, social, and behavioral sciences. Part 1: Integration within Psychology; Part 2: Integration with other Life, Social, and Behavioral Sciences; and Part 3: Integration with the Humanities.
Evolutionary Psychology and Sociology
Evolutionary Psychology and Sociology
Introduction
Sociology has lagged far behind its sister disciplines of psychology and anthropology in accepting and using evolutionary psychology. Although there are hundreds of psychologists and anthropologists who ground their research in this perspective, there are perhaps only a half dozen to a dozen sociologists who accept evolutionary psychology's basic principles and who use it in their research and theorizing. Nevertheless, many sociologists have turned to biology, in one form or another, as a guide to their research and have chided their colleagues for not taking biology into account. Let me call those sociologists who employ evolutionary psychology's principles of natural and sexual selection Darwinian sociologists. There is a second ...
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