TY - GEN AU - Bruggeman,Jeroen TI - A sociology of humankind: how we are formed by culture, cooperation, and conflict T2 - Routledge advances in sociology SN - 9781032608679 AV - HM 585 .B78 U1 - 301 23/eng/20240205 PY - 2024/// CY - Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY PB - Routledge KW - Sociology KW - Social evolution N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - "Based upon the interdependencies of human beings as we cooperate and conflict with each other, how we share information, and how culture evolves, this book proposes a sociology of humanity covering three hundred millennia. Grounded in empirical findings from archaeology, history, lab-experiments and field studies - supplemented for precision with computational network models of cultural evolution, cooperation, influence, cohesion, warfare, power, social balance and inequality - this is the first attempt at an encompassing sociology of humankind. Informed by the the theory of cultural evolution, it extends the notion that cultural evolution connects all humans of all times in a giant sociocultural network, thereby yielding coherence between a great many empirical findings. It will therefore appeal to scholars of sociology and anthropology with interests in historical sociology, cultural evolution and social theory"-- ER -