Sociocultural evolution, the progression
- Contemporary discourse about sociocultural evolution
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The Cold War period was marked by rivalry between two superpowers, both of which considered themselves to be the most highly evolved cultures on the planet. The USSR painted itself as a socialist soci ...
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- Modern theories
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Main article: multilineal evolutionComposite image of the Earth at night, created by NASA and NOAA. The brightest areas of the Earth are the most urbanized, but not necessarily the most populated. Eve ...
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- Stadial theory
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Enlightenment and later thinkers often speculated that societies progressed through stages: that history, in other words, is stadial. These would show increasing development, and theorists looked for ...
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- Organic society
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Several centuries before Western civilisation developed sociology, the 14th-century Islamic scholar Ibn Khaldun concluded that societies are living organisms that, due to universal causes, experience ...
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- Introduction
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Anthropologists and sociologists often assume that human beings have natural social tendencies and that particular human social behaviours have non-genetic causes and dynamics (i.e. they are learned i ...
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- Sociocultural evolution
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Sociocultural evolution, sociocultural evolutionism or cultural evolution are umbrella terms for theories of cultural and social evolution that describe how cultures and societies change over time. Wh ...
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