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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... problem for stimulus - response psychology because if behaviour were nothing but responses to stimuli , the stimuli might be novel but not the behaviour . Operant conditioning solves the problem more or less as natural selection solved ...
... problem for stimulus - response psychology because if behaviour were nothing but responses to stimuli , the stimuli might be novel but not the behaviour . Operant conditioning solves the problem more or less as natural selection solved ...
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... problems in the following areas of its organization : ( 1 ) leadership and social co - ordination ( 2 ) the division ... problem to which I have already alluded : assuming that an institution is functional , and that this function is not ...
... problems in the following areas of its organization : ( 1 ) leadership and social co - ordination ( 2 ) the division ... problem to which I have already alluded : assuming that an institution is functional , and that this function is not ...
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... problem in cross - cultural research for many years was to obtain a representative sample of societies so that on the one hand distortions produced by diffusion or common origin ( ' Galton's Problem ' ) are minimized , but that , on the ...
... problem in cross - cultural research for many years was to obtain a representative sample of societies so that on the one hand distortions produced by diffusion or common origin ( ' Galton's Problem ' ) are minimized , but that , on the ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Darwinism and Social Evolution | 29 |
The Survival of the Mediocre | 81 |
Urheberrecht | |
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adaptive anthropology aspects assembly associated authority basic basis become belief biological centralized Chapter Chinese clan clear clearly closely competition concept consider course culture dependent descent distinction early economic effective environment especially essential established evidence evolutionary example existence explain fact force forms functions give groups human ibid idea importance increase individual Indo-European institutions involved kind king kinship Konso land less maintain major means military nature necessary noted officials organization origin particular period person political population possible practice Press priests primitive principles problem produce properties reasons refer regard relations relative religious requirements result ritual rules seems selection sense significance simply social evolution social organization society specific status structure success theory thought traits unit University warfare warriors whole