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Why Groups Matter to Sociocultural Evolution
Comparative Sociology, 2016Evolutionary concepts have a rich history in sociological theory, from Spencer to Durkheim, Marx to Weber. Recently, a neo-evolutionary revival has occurred in the social sciences, (1) bringing neuroscience into dialogue with age old sociological questions of origins; (2) considering the gene-culture relationship; and (3) constructing sweeping general ...
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Biology and socioculture in human evolution
Journal of Social and Evolutionary Systems, 1997Abstract The ultimate evolutionary effect of an individual organism is the number of its descendants; it is argued here that, unlike other species, humans can have sociocultural as well as biological descendants, so that sociocultural factors, especially prestige, are just as important as biological ones in human evolution.
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Sociocultural Evolution and Sociopolitical Organization
1973For at least three decades academic political science has largely shunned an explicitly evolutionary approach to the study of sociopolitical change. This was not so much the result of deficiencies inherent in the evolutionary perspective, as it was the by-product of a through reorientation of social and political research from the 1930’s onwards ...
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On Sociocultural Evolution by Social Selection
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 2001The essay criticizes an alleged new paradigm for explaining sociocultural change: selectionism. Part one describes the general selectionist explanatory schema, which selectionists claim applies to realms beyond the biological, in particular, the sociocultural. Part two focuses on the way most selectionists, in focusing on cultural change alone, wrongly
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A Mathematical Model of Sociocultural Evolution
2002The mathematical models and principles discussed in Chapter 3 refer mainly to social evolution only, which I already conceded in connection with TRISOC. In addition they are basically macrotheoretical ones, as they analyse systems as a whole and take (artificial) actors just as variables with different states.
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Leadership and the Sociocultural Evolution of Special Education
History and Sociology of South AsiaObjectives This study aims to assess the impact of organisational leadership on student outcomes in mainstreaming special education programmes across Delhi. Methods A total of 300 participants were included, comprising 150 special education administrators and 150 special education ...
Vikas Trivedi, Rashee Singh
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Mythos and logos: Parallel accounts of sociocultural evolution
The Social Science Journal, 1995Recent multidisciplinary research suggests a conjunction of two distinct historical perspectives—especially among ecological theorists—that may be integrated to form a remarkable global picture of ...
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