The Human Difference

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ISBN: 9780520080133 | 0520080130
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Copyright: 4/28/2023

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'An eloquent and exquisitely reasoned plea for a social science based on what is distinctively human about human beings their capacity to create meaning by the forms of interpretation that make human culture possible. This book is a lively attack on the growing antihumanism of so much contemporary social science, and it deserves a wide audience.' Jerome Bruner, New York University

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Preface
Acknowledgments
A Distinct Science for a Distinct Species	p. 1
Sociology's Fragility	p. 1
Nature's Revenge	p. 5
Equality at What Price?	p. 15
The Interpreting Self and the Meaningful Society	p. 21
Other Animal Species and Us	p. 28
Social Theory and the Second Biological Revolution	p. 28
The Case for Other Animals	p. 30
What Sociobiology Teaches Us	p. 41
Tertiary Rules and Human Choice	p. 51
Mind, Self, Society, and Computer	p. 55
Respect for Machines	p. 55
The Human Essence Test	p. 57
Software Intelligence	p. 62
Hardware Intelligence	p. 69
Computers, Humans, and Rules	p. 75
Putting Nature First	p. 82
The Environmental Impulse	p. 82
Animal Rights and Human Imagination	p. 84
Deep Ecology	p. 92
Gaia	p. 100
The Computer in the Woods	p. 105
The Post-modern Void	p. 110
Between the Sacred and the Profane	p. 110
Beneath the Sacred and the Profane	p. 114
Information Versus Meaning	p. 118
Algorithmic Justice	p. 125
A World Safe for Systems	p. 131
Social Science as a Way of Knowing	p. 137
The Two Faces of Social Science	p. 137
Methodological Pluralism	p. 144
Sociological Realism	p. 150
Social Science as a Vocation	p. 156
Is Sociology Necessary?	p. 161
Society on Its Own Terms	p. 164
Competing Metaphors	p. 164
What Social Institutions Are For	p. 169
Philosophical Anthropology Revisited	p. 176
Notes	p. 183
Bibliography	p. 213
Index	p. 237
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