Social structure and the evolutionary ecology of inequality.

IF 16.7 1区 心理学 Q1 BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
Trends in Cognitive Sciences Pub Date : 2025-02-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-03 DOI:10.1016/j.tics.2024.10.013
Daniel Redhead
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Abstract

From rising disparities in income to limited socio-political representation for minority groups, inequality is a topic of perennial interest for contemporary society. Research in the evolutionary sciences has started to investigate how social structure allows inequality to evolve, but is developing in silo from existing work in the social and cognitive sciences. I synthesise these literatures to present a theoretical framework of how and why cultural and ecological conditions can create social structure that either produces or constrains inequality. According to this framework, such conditions dictate the costs and benefits of cooperation that shape individuals' social preferences and resulting behaviours. These behaviours aggregate to produce distinct structures of a society's social networks, which generate different levels of inequality observed across societies.

社会结构和不平等的进化生态学。
从不断扩大的收入差距到少数群体有限的社会政治代表性,不平等是当代社会长期关注的话题。进化科学的研究已经开始调查社会结构是如何允许不平等发展的,但这是在社会科学和认知科学的现有工作中发展起来的。我综合了这些文献,提出了一个理论框架,说明文化和生态条件如何以及为什么会创造出产生或限制不平等的社会结构。根据这一框架,这些条件决定了合作的成本和收益,从而塑造了个人的社会偏好和由此产生的行为。这些行为聚集在一起,形成了一个社会社会网络的独特结构,从而产生了不同程度的不平等。
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Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Trends in Cognitive Sciences 医学-行为科学
CiteScore
27.90
自引率
1.50%
发文量
156
审稿时长
6-12 weeks
期刊介绍: Essential reading for those working directly in the cognitive sciences or in related specialist areas, Trends in Cognitive Sciences provides an instant overview of current thinking for scientists, students and teachers who want to keep up with the latest developments in the cognitive sciences. The journal brings together research in psychology, artificial intelligence, linguistics, philosophy, computer science and neuroscience. Trends in Cognitive Sciences provides a platform for the interaction of these disciplines and the evolution of cognitive science as an independent field of study.
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