Drawing on evolutionary epistemology, process ontology, and a social-cognition approach,
this book suggests cognitive evolution, an evolutionary-constructivist social and normative …

Sheila Jasanoff left home for a normal day at work. The shockwaves broke America's
latetwentieth-century dream of inviolability, and hastened the birth, some said, of a new …

Social “construction,”“constructionism” and “constructivism” are terms in wide use in the
humanities and social sciences, and are applied to a diverse range of objects including the …

36 Part 1: Rules facts to which they refer. Constructivism begins with deeds. Deeds done,
acts taken, words spoken-These are all that facts are. Social scientists freely assume that …

This article argues that questions of gradual institutional change can be understood as an
evolutionary process that can be explained through the careful application of “generalized …

The term “social cognition” can be construed in different ways. On the one hand, it can refer
to the cognitive faculties involved in social activities, defined simply as situations where two …

The second dimension (vertical on Figure 15-1) has to do with the strategy one employs for
the development of cognitive sociology: Whether we want it to be autochthonous-whether …

The idea of world society implies a fully articulated complex culture and consciousness. This
has been emerging on a global scale, but the old world-system of multiple cultures …

In the social sciences norms are sometimes taken to play a key explanatory role. Yet norms
differ from group to group, from society to society, and from species to species. How are …

In this paper we outline a general evolutionary theory, which we suggest can provide a
useful point of departure for the description and analysis of cultural and institutional …