Some Published Articles
"Adaptation, Evolution, and Religion" (Religion, 2008)
"World-Systems Analysis After Thirty Years" (International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 2005)
(Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2007)
"Conflict Theory" (Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2007)
"Democracy" (Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2007)
"Sexual Practices" (Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2007)
"L. T. Hobhouse"(Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2007)
"Social Change" (Handbook of Twenty-first Century Sociology, 2007)
"Militarist, Marxian, and Non-Marxian Materialist Theories of Gender Inequality" (Social Forces, 2005)
"Explaining Monogamy and Polygyny" (Social Forces, 2001)
"Fertility Decline in the Modern World and in the Original Demographic Transition" (Population and Environment, 2000)
An Evolutionary Interpretation of Fertility Decline - New Evidence (Population and Environment, 2001)
"Theoretical and Political Perspectives of Western Sociological Theorists" (American Sociologist, 1999)
"Evolutionism and Its Critics" (Journal of World-Systems Research, 1997)
"Historical European Household Structures" (Journal of Family History, 1991)
"Eclecticism and Its Alternatives" (Current Perspectives in Social Theory, 1987)
"The Provincialism of Introductory Sociology" (Teaching Sociology, 1985)
Some book Tables of Contents, Prefaces, and IntroductionsConflict Sociology: A Sociological Classic Updated (Table of Contents and Prefaces)
In June of 2006 a conference devoted largely to my book The Evolution of Human Sociality was held at the University of Innsbruck in Austria. The papers from that conference have been published by Paradigm Publishers in a volume entitled The New Evolutionary Social Science: Human Nature, Social Behavior, and Social Change, edited by Heinz-Juergen Niedenzu, Tamas Meleghy, and Peter Meyer. A table of contents for the volume appears below, along with the introductory and concluding chapters that I wrote.
The New Evolutionary Social Science (Table of Contents and Introduction) (Paradigm, 2008)
"The Impact of Darwinism on Sociology" (Ch. 1 of The New Evolutionary Social Science)
Studying Societies and Cultures: Marvin Harris's Cultural Materialism and Its Legacy (Table of Contents, Preface, and Introduction) (Paradigm, 2007)
Evolutionism and Its Critics (Table of Contents, Prologue, Introduction) (Paradigm, 2007)
"Marvin Harris Meet Charles Darwin" (Ch. 10 of Studying Societies and Cultures
Revolutions (Paradigm, 2005)
Some Unpublished Conference Papers and Talks
"The Sociology of Human Sexuality: A Darwinian Alternative to Social Constructionism and Postmodernism" (ASA, 2003)
"What's Still Valid in Marxist Thought"? (Talk in Eichstatt, Germany, 2003)
