sociocultural evolution
Sign in to saveAlso known as sociocultural evolutionism, cultural evolution, social evolution, socio-cultural evolution
evolution of societies
Research
8,790 papers- Beyond social learning.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021
- Theodiversity.Annual review of psychology · 2016
- Universal truths.Nature · 2011
- Memetic approach to cultural evolution.Bio Systems · 2021
- Foundations of cultural evolution.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021
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- sociobiology
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- Category:Sociocultural evolution theory
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- Sociocultural evolution
- is the study of
- social change
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Encyclopedic overview
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Sociocultural evolution, sociocultural evolutionism or social evolution are theories of cultural evolution that describe how societies and culture change over time. Whereas sociocultural development traces processes that tend to increase the complexity of a society or culture, sociocultural evolution also considers process that can lead to decreases in complexity (degeneration) or that can produce variation or proliferation without any seemingly significant changes in complexity (cladogenesis). Sociocultural evolution is "the process by which structural reorganization is affected through time, eventually producing a form or structure that is qualitatively different from the ancestral form".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “sociocultural evolution” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.