In this provocative and engaging book, Lee Kirkpatrick establishes a broad, comprehensive
framework for approaching the psychology of religion from an evolutionary perspective …

Sociobiology is the study of the biological bases of behavior in the context of neo-Darwinian
evolutionary theory. This review organizes the contribution of sociobiology to the …

Evolutionary psychology is an emerging paradigm for the social sciences that offers a
powerful metatheoretical framework for personality psychology and, as I attempt to …

Crisis in Sociology presents a compelling portrait of sociology's current troubles and
proposes a controversial remedy. In the authors' view, sociology's crisis has deep roots …

This article represents both a continuance and a reformulation of an ongoing project: a call
to sociology proper to “bring nature back in.” Moving beyond such earlier heuristics as …

Several lines of evidence are reviewed regarding sociology's decline as a college major and
as a respected academic discipline in recent decades. The present article attributes most of …

For over a century Christian ethics has been deeply influenced by the social sciences and,
in particular, by social theories of the kind developed by Marx, Weber, and Durkheim, but it …

Building off of the path-breaking works of Roy Bhaskar—and in particular his philosophical
position of critical realism—this paper works toward a realignment of sociology with the life …

Building on a model first proposed by Gary Johnson, it is hypothesized that religious
institutions demanding celibacy and other forms of altruism from members take advantage of …

More than 40 years after its inception, Bowlby's theory of infant-mother attachment remains
widely accepted and highly influential across many areas and applications of psychology …