Sociology

HealthSociology

How Covid-19 Reminds Us We Are More Alike Than Different

Genetic differences between individuals within groups are much greater than any average differences between groups…

Rosemary L. Hopcroft
October 12, 2020

HealthSociology

For God’s Sake! What’s All This Fuss About a Virus?

The success (or failure) that societies have had in the wake of COVID-19 offers a…

Andrew Atkinson
September 14, 2020

Sociology

Gene-Culture and Potential Culture-Gene Coevolution: The Future of COVID-19

Just as COVID-19's genes initially selected for changes in our culture, in the future those…

Marion Blute
September 7, 2020

BiologySociology

The Coronavirus in Evolutionary Perspective

Humans evolved social potential to cooperate with others will eventually ignite a collective response to…

Alexandra Maryanski
August 31, 2020

HealthSociology

Institutionalization of Animal Welfare and the Evolution of Coronavirus(es)

The current pandemic is an obvious manifestation of the price society has to pay for…

Erin M. Evans
August 24, 2020

EconomySociology

The Coronavirus Pandemic, Evolutionary Sociology, and Long-Term Economic Growth in the United States

Despite the coronavirus, the per capita growth average should return to normal, just as it…

Michael Hammond
August 17, 2020

Sociology

Speculations About Why Sociological Social Psychology Largely Elides Evolutionary Logic

Humans have evolved to favor their in-groups, but who is considered part of the in-group…

Steven Hitlin
August 10, 2020

BiologyPsychologySociology

Bringing Neuroscience and Sociology into Dialogue on Emotions to Better Understand Human Behavior

What this potential marriage suggests is there are great possibilities for research, particularly around social…

Seth Abrutyn
August 4, 2020

Sociology

Natural and Sociocultural Selection: Analyzing the Failure to Respond to the C-19 Pandemic

Another level of selection is now operating in the social universe: selection on the social…

Jonathan H. Turner
August 3, 2020

HealthSociology

Is Video Chat a Sufficient Proxy for Face-to-Face Interaction? Biosociological Reflections on Life during the COVID-19 Pandemic

“Zoom fatigue” and “touch starvation” have evolutionary origins that researchers need to take seriously.

Will Kalkhoff, Richard T. Serpe, Josh Pollock
July 28, 2020