Supplemental Readings

The Problem of Social Order

Banfield, Edward C. 1958. The Moral Basic of a Backward Society. The Free Press.

Holldobler, Bert and Edward O. Wilson. 2008. The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies. W.W. Norton.

Nossiter, Adam. 2009. “Nation in Disarray Holds Few Hopes for Vote.” New York Times. June 28, 2009. Describes disorder in Guinea-Bissau, where the government is so weak and instability so great that even the drug traffickers have moved out.

Wrong, Dennis. 1994. The Problem of Order: What Unites and Divides Society. NY: The Free Press. Surveys various approaches to the problem of order.