Since Darwin, scholars have noted that cultural entities such as languages, laws, firms, and theories seem to 'evolve' through sequences of variation, selection, and replication, in many ways just like living organisms. These essays consider whether modern evolutionary theory can help us to understand the dynamics of different cultural domains.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0197262627
ISBN-13
9780197262627
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2202307
Product Key Features
Author
John Ziman
Language
English
Topic
Sociology / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Dimensions
Item Length
9.6in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
0 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
Vol. 112
Lc Classification Number
Gn360
Publication Name
Evolution of Cultural Entities
Table of Content
Introduction: Selectionist Reasoning as a Tool of ThoughtHeritable Variation and Competitive Selection as the Mechanism of Sociocultural EvolutionBetween Development and Evolution: How to Model Cultural ChangeBetween Evolution and History: Biology, Culture and the Myth of Human OriginsAn Integrating Scaffold: Toward an Autonomy-Theoretic Modelling of Cultural ChangeCultureLearning from CultureChoosing the SelectorsEvolutionary Theorizing in EconomicsThe Evolution of Technological Knowledge: Reflections on Technological Innovation as an Evolutionary ProcessIdiosyncratic Production Regimes: Co-evolution of Economic and Legal Institutions in the Varieties of CapitalismThe Evolution of Education: Change and ReformThe Evolution of Merged Culture, Genes and Computing Artefacts
Copyright Date
2002
Format
Hardcover
Lccn
2002-727193
Dewey Decimal
306
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Series
Proceedings of the British Academy Ser.
Publication Year
2003
Type
Textbook
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Social Science
Number of Pages
234 Pages
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