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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... early forms of institution by a succession of structural transformations , each of which depends on the properties of earlier forms . It is clearly false to suppose that all early writing was in the form of pictures of objects because ...
... early forms of institution by a succession of structural transformations , each of which depends on the properties of earlier forms . It is clearly false to suppose that all early writing was in the form of pictures of objects because ...
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... early states originate from the efforts of powerful groups in society using coercive force , or its threat , to protect their proprietary and unequal rights over resources . Once it comes into existence , as an evolved form of socio ...
... early states originate from the efforts of powerful groups in society using coercive force , or its threat , to protect their proprietary and unequal rights over resources . Once it comes into existence , as an evolved form of socio ...
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... Early Chinese Civilization . Anthropological perspectives . Cambridge , Mass .: Harvard University Press . ( 1980 ) ... early state : a structural approach ' , in The Early State , eds . H. J. M. Claessen and P. Skalnik , 535-96 . The ...
... Early Chinese Civilization . Anthropological perspectives . Cambridge , Mass .: Harvard University Press . ( 1980 ) ... early state : a structural approach ' , in The Early State , eds . H. J. M. Claessen and P. Skalnik , 535-96 . The ...
Inhalt
Introduction | 1 |
Darwinism and Social Evolution | 29 |
The Survival of the Mediocre | 81 |
Urheberrecht | |
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