The Principles of Social EvolutionClarendon Press, 1986 - 412 Seiten Dispelling the general assumption that social institutions survive because of their sophisticated adaptive advantages, this ground-breaking work asserts that the commonest customs and institutions may endure because of their very simplicity or as a result of simple human proclivity. Using religious, military, and kinship institutions to illustrate this argument, the author shows that a precise combination of these factors may lead to the emergence of new forms of social evolution. |
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... status in the following terms : Ascribed statuses are those which are assigned to individuals without reference to their innate differences or abilities . They can be predicted and trained for from the moment of birth . The achieved ...
... status in the following terms : Ascribed statuses are those which are assigned to individuals without reference to their innate differences or abilities . They can be predicted and trained for from the moment of birth . The achieved ...
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... status , and do not fight . Secondly , as we shall consider in more detail shortly , warrior status throughout East Africa generally is much more a matter of age than clan , just as ritual status is closely associated with elderhood ...
... status , and do not fight . Secondly , as we shall consider in more detail shortly , warrior status throughout East Africa generally is much more a matter of age than clan , just as ritual status is closely associated with elderhood ...
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... status ) ; ( 2 ) a king who was the embodiment or representative of the whole society , not of one section alone , with sacred status , elected from among the members of a royal descent group and ratified by the assembly of all free men ...
... status ) ; ( 2 ) a king who was the embodiment or representative of the whole society , not of one section alone , with sacred status , elected from among the members of a royal descent group and ratified by the assembly of all free men ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Inheritance and variation | 47 |
Competition and cooperation | 56 |
Urheberrecht | |
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