Progress in Communication as a Social Science

Abstract

This essay proposes a strategy for achieving coherence in results of communication research: to seek for “dynamics-in-the-large” in a dialectical confrontation between culturally-dominated and genetically-dominated theories of learning how to learn communicative behavior, particularly language. The issue is raised in relation to recent work by K. E. Boulding and E. O. Wilson and is refined by reference to their complementary views on the nature of social evolution, on its...