DISPUTE OVER HUMAN RACES AND ITS CONSEQUENCES FOR SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY

• Authors: Tyrala T.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The subject of this paper is the dispute over human races taking place in biology and the social sciences. In particular, it concerns such issues as: the concept of race, the existence of races and racial differences. In the second half of the XX century that dispute was strongly influenced by 'external' factors - i.e. socio-political - because of its political incorrectness. The intensity of those factors was so great, that it made impossible to solve this problem 'within' science - i.e. using scientific methods. In the author opinion, it was the result of, as he called it, the strategy of social survival. It is a case of biological influence on social structure and, as consequence, on the extent of scientific knowledge. Such issues could be the subject of research of a new scientific field which he postulate in this paper - namely the socio-biology of knowledge, which is a synthesis of socio-biology/evolutionary psychology and the sociology of knowledge.

Keywords

EN

HUMAN RACES DISPUTE; SOCIAL SURVIVAL'S STRATEGY; SOCIOBIOLOGY OF KNOWLEGDE

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Instytut Studiów Politycznych PAN
• Journal: Kultura i Społeczeństwo
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 51
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 149-169
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Tyrala T.

• T. Tyrala, Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza w Krakowie, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Kraków, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA061426