Blute, Marion - Sociology

Personal Information
First Name: 
Marion
Last Name: 
Blute
Department / Program: 
OTHER
Other: 
Sociology
University Affiliation: 
University of Toronto
Email Address: 
Area of Research
Discipline: 
Sociology
Subject: 
Biology
Specific Area of Research: 
Evolution, evolutionary epistemology, universal Darwinism or multi-process selection theory
Academics
PHD Program: 
Sociology
PHD University: 
University of Toronto
PHD Date: 
1977
Major Publications: 
With Paul Armstrong. "The Reinvention of Grand Theories of Science/Scholarship." Forthcoming, Perspectives on Science 19(4) Winter 2011. With Paul Armstrong. "Reports of the Death of the Sociology of Science Have Been Greatly Exaggerated." Canadian Review of Sociology 47(4) 2010: 431-444. "Review of Martin Carrier, Don Howard and Janet Kourany (Ed's.) The Challenge of the Social and the Pressure of Practice: Science and Values Revisited." History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 32(4) 2010: 545-547. Darwinian Sociocultural Evolution: Solutions to Dilemmas in Cultural and Social Theory. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Membership in Academic Societies: 
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Biological Theory Member, Editorial Board, Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science Outgoing Member, Nominations Committee, International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology Incoming Member, Council of Evolution, Biology and Society section of the American Sociological Association Associate, Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
Courses Taught: 
Sociological Theory - graduate and undergraduate; Gene-culture Coevolution