The Social Cage: Human Nature and the Evolution of Society

by Alexandra Maryanski, Jonathan H. Turner

Overview

A Stanford UniversityPress classic.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780804720021
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1993
Edition description:	1
Pages:	228
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d)

Table of Contents

1. Humans are animals 2. The origins of human social structure 3. The origins of human culture 4. The first human society: hunters and gatherers 5. The cage of kinship: horticultural societies 6. The cage of power: agrarian societies 7. Breaking out of the social cage: industrial societies 8. The overly social conception of humans and society Bibliography Index.