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This volume is a concise American government textbook, introducing students to the workings of American government. The authors present American political institutions, such as the presidency, Congress, and the Supreme Court, how the average American participates in Government by covering topics such as voting, public opinion, and the media. They explore why Americans seem to have increasing dissatisfaction with their government and attempt to explore the role that you as U.S. citizens and residents can take in improving democracy in America. By understanding the structure, purpose, and application of the Constitution, students can reflect on how American beliefs influence participation in government and how they can be active citizens in influencing government
From outrage to orthodoxy?Sociobiology and political science at 35
In: Politics and the life sciences: PLS ; a journal of political behavior, ethics, and policy, Band 30, Heft 1, S. 80-84
ISSN: 1471-5457
Few intellectual battles compare in depth of passion or theatrics to the outrage that greeted the publication of Edward O. Wilson's 1975 path-breaking volume,Sociobiology: The New Synthesis. Within days of publication, opponents organized symposia; wrote critical editorials; picketed in Harvard Square; and, at one meeting, assaulted Wilson with a bucket of cold water before he could deliver his address. Fueling this reaction was Wilson's temerity in asserting that the principles of the new synthetic theory applied no less to humans than to other species—and then to use the penultimate chapter to apply his theory to explaining human mating, aggression, and the development of moral and religious systems. Even some who were sympathetic with sociobiology were taken aback by some of the imperialistic sounding statements made by Wilson and his disciples, like Robert Trivers, who prophesized: "Sooner or later, political science, law, economics, psychology, psychiatry, and anthropology will all be branches of sociobiology."
Evolutionary ethics: An idea whose time has come?
In: Politics and the life sciences: PLS ; a journal of political behavior, ethics, and policy, Band 22, Heft 1, S. 64-66
ISSN: 1471-5457
Harrison Symposium III - How well adapted is evolutionary ethics? Evolutionary ethics - An idea whose time has come?
In: Politics and the life sciences: PLS, Band 22, Heft 1, S. 64-66
ISSN: 0730-9384
Evolutionary ethics: An idea whose time has come?
In: Politics and the life sciences: PLS, Band 22, Heft 1, S. 64-66
ISSN: 0730-9384
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge - Edward O. Wilson New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998, 332 pp. US$26.00. ISBN 0-679-45077-7. Alfred A. Knopf, 201 E. 50th St., New York, NY 10022, USA
In: Politics and the life sciences: PLS ; a journal of political behavior, ethics, and policy, Band 18, Heft 2, S. 341-341
ISSN: 1471-5457
PrécisEdward O. Wilson continues an argument begun in earlier works that all branches of knowledge are converging around basic fundamental laws of nature discovered through the scientific method. He eclipses earlier calls to bridge the gaps between evolutionary biology and philosophy, for example, by an appeal to involve the arts as well as the humanities in this "jumping together" of the various branches of human knowledge. Wilson draws upon his work in population genetics, entomology, and ethology to propose ways in which science can inform and transform current debates in philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics. He maintains that the sciences, humanities, and arts, properly understood, contribute to the "conviction, far deeper than a mere working proposition, that the world is orderly and can be explained by a small number of natural laws."
Whither Intellectual Diversity in American Political Science? The Case of APSA and Organized Sections
In: PS: political science & politics, Band 31, Heft 4, S. 836-846
Human by Nature: Between Biology and the Social Sciences. Peter Weingart and Sandra D. Mitchell, Peter J. Richerson and Sabine Maasen (eds.). Mahwah, NJ:Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,1997, 425 pp. US$89.95. ISBN 0-8058-2154-6. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 10 Industrial Ave., Mahwah, NJ 07430-2262, USA
In: Politics and the life sciences: PLS ; a journal of political behavior, ethics, and policy, Band 17, Heft 2, S. 226-228
ISSN: 1471-5457
Whither intellectual diversity in American political science?: The case of APSA and organized sections
In: PS: political science & politics, Band 31, Heft 4, S. 836-846
ISSN: 0030-8269, 1049-0965
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Whither intellectual diversity in American political science? the case of APSA and Organized Sections
In: PS: political science & politics, Band 31, S. 836-846
ISSN: 0030-8269, 1049-0965
Examines the role of the American Political Science Association and its Organized Sections, groups which reflect the research interests of its members, in shaping growth of the study of politics, 1920s-1990s; US.
The Profession - Whither Intellectual Diversity in American Political Science: The Case of APSA and Organized Sections
In: PS: political science & politics, Band 31, Heft 4, S. 836-846
ISSN: 0030-8269, 1049-0965
The Moral Sense. James Q. Wilson. New York: The Free Press, 1993, 313 pp. US$22.95 cloth. ISBN 0-02-935405-6. The Free Press, 866 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10022, USA
In: Politics and the life sciences: PLS ; a journal of political behavior, ethics, and policy, Band 13, Heft 2, S. 277-277
ISSN: 1471-5457
Book Reviews: Maxwell - The Sociobiological ImaginationMary Maxwell (ed.) Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1991, 376 pp. US$44.50 cloth. ISBN 0-7914-0767-5. US$14.95 paper. ISBN 0-7914-0768-3. State University of New York Press, P.O. Box 6525, Ithaca, NY 14851, USA
In: Politics and the life sciences: PLS ; a journal of political behavior, ethics, and policy, Band 11, Heft 2, S. 294-296
ISSN: 1471-5457
PrécisAs the editor reports in the introduction, this volume has three goals: (1) to acknowledge the influence of sociobiology in a wide number of disciplines and areas of inquiry; (2) to illustrate the ways in which practitioners of these disparate disciplines employ sociobiological approaches in their own fields of study; and (3) to introduce major principles of sociobiology.Contributors assess the current and potential influence of sociobiology in their own fields, including psychiatry (Randolph M. Nesse), law (John H. Beckstrom), management theory (J. Gary Bernhard and Kalman Glantz), anthropology (William Irons), economics (Robert H. Frank), primatology (Birute Galdikas and Paul Vasey), history (Laura Betzig), political science (Roger D. Masters), ethical philosophy (John Chandler), cognitive psychology (Douglas Kenrick and Robert Hogan), epistemology (Michael Ruse), religious studies (Vernon Reynolds), studies of conflict (Johan M. G. van der Dennen), Marxist thought (Regina Karpinskaya), aesthetics (Charles J. Lumsden), sociology (Pierre L. van den Berghe), linguistics (James R. Hurford), and psychology (Charles Crawford). The introductory essay includes a glossary of sociobiological terms.
Book Reviews: Van Der Dennen & Falger
In: Politics and the life sciences: PLS ; a journal of political behavior, ethics, and policy, Band 11, Heft 1, S. 139-141
ISSN: 1471-5457
Précis. This volume explores the contributions of sociobiology for an understanding of a wide range of conflictual behaviors among humans. While specifically focusing upon inclusive fitness theory, contributing authors forge ties between sociobiological propositions and data on conflict and cooperation from a wide range of disciplines, including sociology, social psychology, and political science, among others.