Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Langton, John

Titel

THE BEHAVIOURAL THEORY OF EVOLUTION AND THE WEBER THESIS

Ist Teil von

• Sociology (Oxford), 1982-08, Vol.16 (3), p.341-358

Ort / Verlag

Oxford: British Sociological Association Publications Limited

Erscheinungsjahr

1982

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spint of Capitalism is probably the most famous, controversial, and frequently misinterpreted work produced by a social scientist in this century. By demonstrating that this seminal work is predicated on a more or less explicit version of the behavioural theory of sociocultural evolution, this article should accomplish two major goals. First, it should shed new light on the Weber thesis itself and on the kinds of data required to test it. Second, it should clarify the principal propositions of the behavioural theory of evolution and give some indication of their paradigmatic utility.