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Individuals, Relationships and Culture: Links Between Ethology and the Social Sciences

Individuals, Relationships and Culture: Links Between Ethology and the Social Sciences

Hinde, Robert A.
Goody, Jack
Hawthorn, Geoffrey

Paperback

Series: Themes in the Social Sciences

CognitionGeneral PsychologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0521348447
ISBN13: 9780521348447
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 5 1987
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Both biologists and social scientists have much to say about human behaviour. Yet attempts to combine their approaches to provide a deeper understanding of human nature have not so far been generally successful. First published in 1987, this book offered an original way of bridging the gap between them. The key to bringing the two approaches together is, Professor Hinde suggests, to recognise crucial distinctions between levels of social complexity (individuals, interactions, relationships and groups), whilst at the same time bearing in mind that all are processes in dialectical relations with each other and with the socio-cultural structure of institutions, beliefs, values, norms and so on. Professor Hinde argues that principles derived from ethology are essential for understanding some aspects of behaviour at the lower levels of social complexity, but have severe limitations at higher ones. This innovative approach will interest research workers, lecturers and students of psychology, biology, anthropology and sociology, as well as other readers seeking a comprehensive understanding of the nature of human social behaviour.

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