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Nature and Society

International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 1989
Kautsky discusses his attitude to Darwinism and neo-Lamarckism and claims, with the latter, to have linked biology and sociology. In his magnum opus, he used an investigation of basic human drives both as a starting point for his sociology and as a rebuttal of the doctrine that man is motivated only by economic interests.
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Societies of nature and the nature of society

2002
Conceptualizing society, the anthropologist confronts a paradoxical problem. Ever since Malinowski, a strong tradition, embodied in influential monographs, has encouraged ethnographers to describe small-scale and territorially circumscribed pre-literate groups as if they were perfectly coherent totalities, each endowed with a particular cultural logic ...
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Nature and Society

2011
How are society and nature related? How and why do the relationships vary over time and across space? Together, these questions virtually defined the focus and raison d’être of academic geography when it first gained a toe-hold in Western universities over a century ago.
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Ecosystem and Ecotomo: A Nature or Society-Nature Relationship?

Acta Biotheoretica, 2000
The notion of entorno is discussed and its mutual dependence upon the organism is emphasised. Both the etymology and meaning of ethos, oikos, entorno and ecotomo are discussed. The intimate relation between Ethology and Ecology is also shown. A reference background is given to explain how the commonly considered isolated components organism/society and
A, Malpartida, L, Lavanderos
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The Natural Society

1962
The aim of philosophy is to understand the ultimate nature of things, and this aim is always defeated; but the terms of each of its defeats may be accepted by some society and for a while established as an absolute dogma and its beliefs officially enforced by means of one institution or another.
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Is There a Natural Suicide Rate for a Society?

Psychological Reports, 1991
It was argued that no society could be free of suicide. To test this, from published literature 27 social variables related to suicide were set to zero in the multiple regression equations, and the estimated suicide rate was observed to be positive and nonzero.
B J, Yang, D, Lester
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