What Is Integrative Sociology?
 Integrative Sociology recognizes the vast importance of social
interactions occurring at multiple levels of organic
life and
evolution. This website was designed with several goals:
compile a bibliography of studies of social interactions
from the molecular level to the species population
level; track and present theoretical analyses of the
proximate mechanisms of social interaction from multiple
disciplines; track and present theoretical analyses of
the significance of social interactions in the evolution
and extinction of species; and facilitate discussions
and comparative investigations of social interactions
across multiple levels of organic life.
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Feature Articles
"Sexual Selection, Social Competition, and
Speciation", M. J. West-Eberhard
"The Evolution of Interacting Phenotypes", Allen J.
Moore et al.
"Genetic Architecture and Evolutionary Constraint",
James B. Wolf
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Books
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The Expression of Emotions in Animals and Man, Charles
Darwin
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The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection, Sir Ronald
Fisher
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Animal Aggregations: A Study in General Sociology, W. C.
Allee
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The Biology of Moral Systems, Richard D. Alexander
● Foundations of Social Evolution
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Genetic and Cultural Evolution of Cooperation, Peter
Hammerstein (ed).
● Darwinian Dynamics, Richard E. Michod
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Epistasis and the Evolutionary Process, Jason Wolf et
al. (eds)
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Not By Genes Alone, Peter Richerson & Richard Boyd
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Genes in Conflict: The Biology
of Selfish Genetic Elements, Austin Burt & Robert
Trivers
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Documentaries
Evolution @ PBS
The Brain: Our Universe Within
The Life of Mammals
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Origins of the Idea
Today, there's relatively little intellectual exchange
between the fields of Sociology and Biology. Yet,
naturalists living around the beginning of the 20th
century seemed rather optimistic about the potential
merger of both fields.
Darwin
saw many similarities in social interaction among
species. Sociology was seen by some,
such as
Sir Ronald Fisher (pictured),
and
Theodosius Dobzhansky, as the field
which would complete our understanding the natural
world. It was
W. C. Allee (1885-1955) who coined the term General
Sociology to bring attention to similarities in patterns
of social interaction across species.
While sociological investigations remain largely
detached from any influence of the natural sciences,
especially, Darwinian theory, natural scientists are
making steady advances in understanding social interactional dynamics in human and non-human organisms.
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