Jonathan Turner: 32 books

Book cover of Theoretical Principles of Sociology, Volume 3
by Jonathan H. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012

The meso-level realm of social reality is structured by corporate and categoric units, along with their respective cultures. Unlike the macro and micro realms of social reality, the meso-level does not reveal its own unique forces. Rather, the dynamics of meso-structures and cultures are driven by...
Book cover of Handbook on Evolution and Society

Handbook on Evolution and Society

Toward an Evolutionary Social Science

by Alexandra Maryanski, Richard Machalek, Jonathan H. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015

"Handbook on Evolution and Society" brings together original chapters by prominent scholars who have been instrumental in the revival of evolutionary theorizing and research in the social sciences over the last twenty-five years. Previously unpublished essays provide up-to-date, critical surveys of...
Book cover of Theoretical Principles of Sociology, Volume 2
by Jonathan H. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010

Micro-level dynamics revolve around face-to-face interactions among individuals. What occurs within encounters is constrained by their embedding with corporate and categoric units and, by extension, institutional domains, stratification systems, community networks, societies, and inter-societal systems....
Book cover of On the Origin of Societies by Natural Selection
by Jonathan H. Turner, Alexandra Maryanski
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015

Kinship, religion, and economy were not "natural" to humans, nor to species of apes that had to survive on the African savanna. Society from its very beginnings involved an uneasy necessity that often stood in conflict with humans' ape ancestry; these tensions only grew along with later,...
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