Sociology of Humankind

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 encompassing sociology of humankind. Informed by the theory of cultural evolution it extends the notion that cultural evolution connects 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.