?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Religion+and+Science+-+Sex+and+Society%3A+Forms+and+Processes+of+Cohesion&rft.creator=Allott%2C+Robin&rft.subject=Sociobiology&rft.subject=Evolution&rft.subject=Social+Psychology&rft.description=Religion+has+been+in+the+past%2C+and+still+is+in+a+number+of+countries%2C+the+main+cohesive+force+holding+populations%2C+particularly+genetically+disparate+ones%2C+together+in+one+system.+Patterns+of+sexual+behaviour+(often+strongly+influenced+by+religious+beliefs+and+prescriptions)+in+different+societies+have+determined+the+organisational+character+of+the+society+-+from+the+nuclear+family+(now+apparently+in+decline)+in+most+Western+countries+and+the+extended+family+of+earlier+periods.+Both+religion+and+patterns+of+sexual+behaviour+as+cohesive+forces+have+been+radically+challenged+by+science%2C+both+as+a+mode+of+thought+and+as+the+source+of+technologies+which+change+the+environment+in+which+societies+operate.+A+sociobiology+of+societies+has+to+be+founded+on+a+sociobiology+of+the+individuals+forming+the+society+and+on+a+biologizing+of+sociology.+The+survival+of+populations+(interpreted+as+gene+pools)+and+of+societal+forms+are+interlocked%3B+a+sociobiology+of+societies+can+start+to+consider+the+conditions+and+forces+which+over+long+periods+determine+the+relative+success+or+failure+of+nations+and+social+systems.+&rft.publisher=NIDI%2FCBGS+Publications&rft.contributor=Thienpoint%2C+Kristiaan&rft.contributor=Cliquet%2C+Robert&rft.date=1999&rft.type=Book+Chapter&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F3159%2F1%2Fcohesion.htm&rft.identifier=++Allott%2C+Robin++(1999)+Religion+and+Science+-+Sex+and+Society%3A+Forms+and+Processes+of+Cohesion.++%5BBook+Chapter%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F3159%2F