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Smith, John A. – Policy Futures in Education, 2013
This article argues that Education Studies needs to develop its existing interdisciplinarity understanding of structures and agencies by giving greater attention to the modern process theories of self-organisation in the physical, biological, psychological and social sciences, sometimes given the umbrella term "complexity theory". The…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Systems Approach, Social Theories, Evolution
Machalek, Richard; Martin, Michael W. – Teaching Sociology, 2010
Recently, a growing contingent of "evolutionary sociologists" has begun to integrate theoretical ideas and empirical findings derived from evolutionary biology, especially sociobiology, into a variety of sociological inquiries. Without capitulating to a naive version of either biological reductionism or genetic determinism, these researchers and…
Descriptors: Sociology, Biology, Interdisciplinary Approach, Evolution
Arnhart, Larry – Academic Questions, 2006
Be it metaphysics, theology, or some other unifying framework, humans have long sought to determine "first principles" underlying knowledge. Larry Arnhart continues in this vein, positing a Darwinian web of genetic, cultural, and cognitive evolution to explain our social behavior in terms of human nature as governed by biology. He leaves it to us…
Descriptors: Philosophy, Social Behavior, Self Efficacy, Liberal Arts