About the Book: Lenskis Theory of Evolutionary Sociology
The second edition of the book Lenskis Theory of Evolutionary Sociology has
presented six important chapters by leading sociologists to answer the questions
raised by Lenski. After reviewing Lenskis social and ecological evolutionary
theory in a critical fashion, by emphasising its engagement with alternativity
and by introducing a different approach to structure, it is reconsidered the
salience of the event in the developmentalist project and suggest that his
ecological-evolutionary theory can be quite helpful in posting new questions
about an eventful sociology. By rethinking communisms collapse in 1989 and
terrorisms explosion in 2001 within Lenskis theoretical frame, one can suggest
critical