Stephen K. Sanderson

Stephen K. Sanderson is currently a visiting scholar in the Institute for Research on World-Systems at the University of California, Riverside. He is a comparative-historical sociologist who has authored or edited ten books in fifteen editions and nearly sixty articles in journals and edited collections. Most of his work has been devoted to the comparative study of the entire range of human societies, especially to the study of long-term social evolution. More recently, he has sought to contribute to the unification of the social and natural sciences through a theoretical synthesis he has called Darwinian conflict theory, which he is continuing to develop and extend.

Sanderson's most important books are:

• Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies (4 editions, 1988, 1991, 1995, and 1999, HarperCollins and Addison Wesley Longman. 2nd ed. Indonesia-Bahasa translation; 3rd ed. Korean translation). 
• Social Evolutionism: A Critical History (Blackwell, 1990).
• Social Transformations: A General Theory of Historical Development (Blackwell, 1995; updated edn. Rowman & Littlefield 1999).
• The Evolution of Human Sociality: A Darwinian Conflict Perspective (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001).
• Revolutions: A Worldwide Introduction to Political and Social Change (Paradigm Publishers, 2005).
• Evolutionism and Its Critics: Deconstructing and Reconstructing an Evolutionary Interpretation of Human Society (Paradigm Publishers, 2007).

Edited books include:

• Sociological Worlds: Comparative and Historical Readings on Society (Roxbury Press, 1995).
• Civilizations: Studying World Historical Change (AltaMira, 1995).
• Studying Societies and Cultures: Marvin Harris's Cultural Materialism and Its Legacy (Paradigm Publishers, 2007; with Lawrence A. Kuznar).