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This second of three volumes sets out a general account of the structure and evolution of human societies. The author argues first that societies are to be defined as sets of roles whose incumbents are competitors for access to, or control of, the means of production, persuasion and coercion; and second, that the process by which societies evolve is one of competitive selection of the practices by which roles are defined analagous, but not reducible, to natural selection. He illustrates and tests these theses with evidence drawn from the whole range of societies documented in the historical and ethnographic record. The result is an original, powerful and far-reaching reformulation of evolutionary sociological theory which will make it possible to do for the classification and analysis of societies what Darwin and his successors have done for the classification and analysis of species.

Sociological theory building --- Social Sciences --- Sociology --- 316.245 --- 316.3 --- #SBIB:316.21H42 --- 316.3 Sociale structuur --(sociologie) --- Sociale structuur --(sociologie) --- 316.245 Biologische theorieen. Sociobiologie--(sociologische scholen) --- Biologische theorieen. Sociobiologie--(sociologische scholen) --- Theoretische sociologie: sociobiologie --- Social sciences --- Social structure --- Methodology. --- Philosophy. --- History --- England --- Social conditions --- Organization, Social --- Social organization --- Anthropology --- Social institutions --- Social philosophy --- Social theory

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History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- anno 1500-1599 --- Henry --- Influence. --- Great Britain --- England --- Economic conditions --- Social conditions --- History

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A multi-disciplinary look at English society over three centuries, arguing that although much about society has changed - technology, lifestyles, amenities, beliefs, attitudes, norms, and values - the distribution of political, ideological, and economic power between society's constituent roles has stayed the same.

Great Britain --- History

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Plato's Republic, Hobbes's Leviathan, and Marx's Communist Manifesto are universally acknowledged classics of Western political thought. But how strong are the core arguments on which they base their visions of the good society that they want to bring into being? In this lively and provocative book, W. G. Runciman shows where and why they fail, even after due allowance has been made for the different historical contexts in which they wrote. Plato, Hobbes, and Marx were all passionately convinced that justice, peace, and order could be established if only their teachings were implemented and the right people put into power. But Runciman makes a powerful case to the effect that all three were irredeemably naive in their assumptions about how human societies function and evolve and how human behavior could be changed. Yet despite this, Runciman insists that Republic, Leviathan, and The Communist Manifesto remain great books. Born of righteous anger and frustration, they are masterfully eloquent pleas for better worlds--worlds that Plato, Hobbes, and Marx cannot bring themselves to admit to be unattainable.

Political science --- Political philosophy --- Philosophy. --- Marx, Karl, --- Hobbes, Thomas, --- Plato.

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John's Gospel is an innovative study which shows how the current plurality of literary methodologies can be used effectively to illuminate the text of the fourth gospel. Dr Stibbe, the well-respected author of three previous volumes on St John, uses the methods of structuralism, deconstructionism and narrative criticism in his interpretation. A detailed introduction makes his book accessible to the non-specialist.
The book is an invaluable guide to John's Gospel for all those interested in the Bible as literature. It is important reading for all theologians, students of th

Bible as literature. --- Bible and literature --- Religious literature --- Bible. --- Jean (Book of the New Testament) --- Johanisi (Book of the New Testament) --- Johannesevangelium --- John (Book of the New Testament) --- Yohan pogŭm --- Yohane den (Book of the New Testament) --- Yūḥannā (Book of the New Testament) --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Ioganaĭ (Book of the New Testament) --- Иоганай (Book of the New Testament)