TY - CHAP
T1 - Models, metaphors, lamarckisms and the emergence of ‘scientific sociology’
AU - Gissis, Snait B.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Editor(s) and The Author(s) 2018.
PY - 2017/1/1
Y1 - 2017/1/1
N2 - The aim of this chapter is to answer the following question: ‘How and why were models, mechanisms, analogies, metaphors and assumptions that could be characterized as Lamarckian-Spencerian, neo-Lamarckian perceived to be especially congenial to an emerging sociology seeking to become a scientific discipline in the latter part of the nineteenth century, and even in the early twentieth century?’ In answering this question, I shall briefly address the following issues: determinism and plasticity, individuals and collectivities, heredity and inheritance, and deal primarily with Herbert Spencer and Émile Durkheim. This essay is dedicated to the memory of Silvan S. Schweber.
AB - The aim of this chapter is to answer the following question: ‘How and why were models, mechanisms, analogies, metaphors and assumptions that could be characterized as Lamarckian-Spencerian, neo-Lamarckian perceived to be especially congenial to an emerging sociology seeking to become a scientific discipline in the latter part of the nineteenth century, and even in the early twentieth century?’ In answering this question, I shall briefly address the following issues: determinism and plasticity, individuals and collectivities, heredity and inheritance, and deal primarily with Herbert Spencer and Émile Durkheim. This essay is dedicated to the memory of Silvan S. Schweber.
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U2 - 10.1057/978-1-137-52879-7_2
DO - 10.1057/978-1-137-52879-7_2
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AN - SCOPUS:85042447935
SN - 9781137528780
SP - 25
EP - 47
BT - The Palgrave Handbook of Biology and Society
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
ER -