Bio-historical Critical Sociology started on 10.10.2009 in Polish cyberspace when I published my Polish blog series of sociological articles. In the blog, I analysed a Polish contemporary socio-political situation based on very interesting unpublished, open-ended articles through extensive research on relevant scientific fields and its findings, such as archeology, history, evolutionary biology, evolutionary anthropology, linguistics and sociology.
This biological and historical approach to Critical Sociology is a continuation of Darwin’s theory, Wilson’s sociobiology and Maryanski’s evolutionary sociology, including the thoughts of John Locke, Charles Wright Mills and Friedrich von Hayek. The approach remained in opposition to main stream academic sociology. In other words, it is an evolutionary approach in terms of social cultural history and the biological development of creatures on earth.
A bio-history approach to human ecology stresses the interplay between biophysical and cultural processes. Its starting point is the study of the history of life on earth and of the basic principles of evolution, ecology, and physiology, as well as the sensitivities of ecosystems and living organisms. It then considers the biological and innate sensitivities of humans, the emergence of the human aptitude for culture and its biological significance. It is particularly concerned with the interplay between cultural processes and biophysical systems, such as ecosystems and human populations.
Research methods used in this bio-historical school of critical sociology are qualitative observations based on one on one in-depth interviews rather than quantitative statistics or polls. The social researcher works like a private detective gathering social and personal data which are further used in logical processes of forming a conclusion such as induction, deduction or analogy.
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Editing support: Jane Lock
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