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 of the soldier Those who believe that ideology is simply a response to the practical necessities of social life would surely have predicted that by the time of the Han Empire the status of warfare and of generals in particular ...
... status of the soldier Those who believe that ideology is simply a response to the practical necessities of social life would surely have predicted that by the time of the Han Empire the status of warfare and of generals in particular ...
Inhalt
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