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Sociocultural Evolution and the Future of World Society
World Futures, 2007World society has been emerging on a global scale, but the old world-system of multiple cultures continues to exist at the same time that a global culture is in formation. In this article the author discusses the relations among these forms of integration in the contemporary system, the coming dark age of deglobalization, and the potential for the ...
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Design and Sociocultural Evolution: Theoretical and Practical Considerations
World Futures, 2002The two approaches described here may clarify the role of design in sociocultural evolution by making best use of information already available. The first, holistic in nature, explores possible advantages of a convergence between the design, systems, and social evolution communities which, to date, have worked largely in isolation of one another.
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A Theoretical Model of Sociocultural Evolution
2002If there are at present no complete theories of sociocultural evolution, i.e., theories that capture at least principally all important features of these complex processes, then one has to proceed in a way that has often been criticised as “eclectic”.
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Sociocultural Evolution: A Concept and its Difficulties
2002There are probably few concepts in the social sciences which bear so many difficulties as the concept of sociocultural evolution. The reasons for it are at least twofold: on the one hand theories about evolution of societies were often mixed with ideologies about race, nation or sociocultural classes; on the other hand since Darwin the concept of ...
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Some Mechanisms of Sociocultural Evolution
1962Julian H. Steward, Demitri B. Shimkin
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Settlement networks and sociocultural evolution
2021Anthropologists and historical comparative social scientists have seen value in understanding not only how different locations and cultures are distinct but also where and when sociocultural complexity and hierarchy have emerged over the past 12 000 years.
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Biologists on Sociocultural Evolution: A Critical Analysis
Sociological Theory, 1987Marion Blute
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Darwinian Sociocultural Evolution
2010Social scientists can learn a lot from evolutionary biology - from systematics and principles of evolutionary ecology to theories of social interaction including competition, conflict and cooperation, as well as niche construction, complexity, eco-evo-devo, and the role of the individual in evolutionary processes.
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