MOVING FORWARD BY LOOKING BACK Hunting/Gathering Societies and Models for the Future

This paper reviews and assesses recent scholarship that focuses on the lessons that contemporary societies can learn from our hunting/gathering ancestors. The paper examines social organization for 99% of human history, with particular attention given to dominant “relational structures”: and modes of adaptation (cognitive, appreciative, moral, and technical) to the “physico-chemical, “organic,” and “telic” environments, on the institutional, symbolic, and self-identity levels. The paper then goes on to sketch fundamental relational and adaptive shifts as a result of the agricultural, industrial, digital revolutions, as well as scenarios for the emerging transhumanist age (involving the increasing merger of human and machine)

MOVING FORWARD BY LOOKING BACK Hunting/Gathering Societies and Models for the Future

This paper reviews and assesses recent scholarship that focuses on the lessons that contemporary societies can learn from our hunting/gathering ancestors. The paper examines social organization for 99% of human history, with particular attention given to dominant “relational structures”: and modes of adaptation (cognitive, appreciative, moral, and technical) to the “physico-chemical, “organic,” and “telic” environments, on the institutional, symbolic, and self-identity levels. The paper then goes on to sketch fundamental relational and adaptive shifts as a result of the agricultural, industrial, digital revolutions, as well as scenarios for the emerging transhumanist age (involving the increasing merger of human and machine)

Timeline of Social Problems Research from 1945 to Present

The goal of the project is to develop a timeline of social problems research that either advocates on behalf of particular approaches or challenges or debunks particular approaches. The time period in question is 1945 to the present. This project follows up on a presentation The Blind Spots of Intersectional Analysis that was given at the Eastern Sociological Society Meeting in 2011. This research is part of a larger project that investigates the moral, political, and ideological component in social problems analysis over time. In this effort Dr. Haynor is collaborating with Irene J. Dabrowski (Sociology, St. John\u27s University—New York) and Mark Horowitz (Sociology, Seton Hall University), who are the project\u27s Co-Investigators. In addition the results of this study will be integrated into Social Problems and Solutions (SOCI 2601) at Seton Hall which discusses the multiplicity of perspectives in social problems analysis