Sociocultural evolution theory

thumb|Woman's Progress, May 1895|200px

Progressivism is a political philosophy and reform movement that seeks to progress the human condition through reforms. Adherents endeavor to spread this idea to human societies everywhere throughout the globe. Progressivism arose during the Age of Enlightenment out of the belief that civility in Europe was improving due to the application of new empirical knowledge.

evolution of societies

explanation for the process of modernization within societies

idea developed by Auguste Comte

obsolete anthropological theory that Western European-American culture is the pinnacle of social evolution in a single line from the most primitive to most civilized

thumb|Image of a horse from the Lascaux|Lascaux caves made by the Cro-Magnon peoples at their hunting route in the Stone age Urgesellschaft (German, 'primal society') is a term that, according to Friedrich Engels, refers to the original coexistence of humans in prehistoric times, before recorded history. Here, a distinction is made between the kind of Homo sapiens as humans, who hardly differed from modern humans biologically (an assertion disputed by anthropology), and other representatives of the genus Homo such as the Homo erectus or the Neanderthal. Engels claimed "that animal family dynam

evolutionary theory of social change

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social theory