СОЦИОБИОЛОГИЧНАТА ПАРАДИГМА КАТО ТЕОРЕТИЧНА OCHOBA HA СОЦИАЛНИТЕ НАУКИ
SOCIOBIOLOGICAL PARADIGM AS A THEORETICAL BASIS OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

Summary/Abstract: In the present expose the socio-biological paradigm is expounded as a powerful and at the same time rejected tool for analyzing of social phenomena. The evolutionary psychology is not a particular field of research but a way of perceiving the psychological constructs which can be applied to almost every one of them. The fundaments of the paradigm are explained: gene selection, kin-altruism, evolutionary stable strategies, reciprocal altruism, theories of reproductive behavior. The emphasis is laid on the application of the biological determinism and reductionism of the evolutionary psychology in the social sciences and especially on the numerous objections (most of them related to the "nature vs nurture" discussion). The unpopularity of the socio-biology in Bulgaria is mentioned as a specific problem — reactive rejection of every kind of materialistic approaches, contradiction with the fashionable psychodynamic theories and the applied psychology.

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