在十九世纪和二十世纪初,进化论在社会学思想中占统治地位,但是从1920年以来,人们对进化论研究的兴趣已让位于对社会制度的系统分析,对社会趋势和人口统计学的分析,以及对行为的社会决定因素的研究。最近,人们对进化论观点重新发生兴趣是同对历史的和比较的方法研究日益增长的兴趣密切相关。但这并不是回复到 In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, evolutionism dominated sociological thinking, but since 1920 the interest in evolutionary research has given way to a systematic analysis of social institutions, social trends and demographics Analysis of the social determinants of behavior. Recently, renewed interest in the notion of evolution has been linked closely to growing interest in historical and comparative methodological research. But this is not to reply