Cultural Evolution and Social Ontology: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy)

This volume explores connections between two growing and complementary fields of research: cultural evolutionary theory and social ontology.It sheds light on the ontological aspects of cultural evolution that so far have been largely neglected and raises questions for social ontology regarding the relevance of evolutionary aspects of social phenomena. This volume shows that cultural evolutionary theory and social ontology are complementary disciplines that, while having their own subject matter and their own research questions, illuminate each other in interesting ways.While the contributors vary in their approach to the relationship between social ontology and cultural evolution, they explore their many common themes including power, language, agency, interaction, and social institutions and roles.The chapters are divided into thematic sections organized around meta-perspectives on cultural evolution and social ontology, the power concept in cultural evolution and social ontology, and