Much like functionalism and economics, evolution – and especially evolutionary sociology like sociobiology – is frequently co-opted not as an explanatory model, but as a justification for someone’s […]
sociobiology / sociology
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Staring Into The Abyss: There Will Always Be Monsters, Our Only Choice Is Whose Side They Are On
I’ve mentioned my … appreciation … for the Operative from Serenity more than a few times. Usually in the context of “It’s a damn good thing I don’t […]
sociobiology / sociology
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The Individual Family
What if there isn’t a single accurate model of human behavior because we’re looking at the wrong level? Until relatively recently, the concept of an atom was that […]
sociobiology / sociology
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Biology schmi-ology.
In retrospect, I should have just nodded and said “Yes, the bastard!” Instead, I said, “Right – and it doesn’t work because it doesn’t take societal mechanisms into […]
sex / sociobiology / sociology
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There's gonna be a lot of sex.
Or at least, I’m going to be talking about it a lot. I’m taking a course in the sociology of sex – very fascinating, so far – and […]
philosophy / sociobiology / sociology
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Hacking Mead
The Meadian concept of oneself (and how we model others goes a long way towards explaining conversational strategies. The two that most obviously lend themselves towards this analysis […]