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If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, Date: 2008. paperback. Fine. No markings. Always securely packed. Professional booksellers since 1994. Satisfaction guaranteed. Always securely packed. Professional booksellers since 1994. Satisfaction guaranteed. 2008. Louisiana State University Press ISBN 0807133698 9780807133699 [US]
ISBN10: 0807133698, ISBN13: 9780807133699, [publisher: Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge] Softcover No markings. Always securely packed. Professional booksellers since 1994. Satisfaction guaranteed. Always securely packed. Professional booksellers since 1994. Satisfaction guaranteed. [Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2008]
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Paperback / softback. New. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, natural and social scientists began comparing certain insects to human social organization. Entomologists theorized that social insects -- such as ants, bees, wasps, and termites -- organize themselves into highly specialized, hierarchical divisions of labor. Using a distinctly human vocabulary that reflected the dominant social structure of the time, they described insects as queens, workers, and soldiers and categorized their behaviors with words like marriage, slavery, farming, and factories. At the same time, sociologists working to develop a model for human organization compared people to insects, relying on the same premise that humans arrange themselves hierarchically. In Debugging the Link between Social Theory and Social Insects, Diane M. Rodgers explains how these co-constructed theories reinforced one another, thereby naturalizing Western conceptions of race, class, and gender as they gained prominence in popular culture and the scientific world.Using a critical science studies perspective not previously applied to research on social insect symbolism, Rodgers attempts to ""debug"" this theoretical co-construction. She provides sufficient background information to accommodate readers unfamiliar with entomology -- including in-depth explanations of the terms used in the research and discussion of social insects, particularly the insect sociality scale ...
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