The Dynamics of Cultural Evolution - Rosenberg, Michael; - Prospero Internetes Könyváruház

The Dynamics of Cultural Evolution: The Central Role of Purposive Behaviors
 
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ISBN13:9783031048654
ISBN10:3031048652
Kötéstípus:Puhakötés
Terjedelem:203 oldal
Méret:235x155 mm
Súly:338 g
Nyelv:angol
Illusztrációk: 6 Illustrations, black & white; 4 Illustrations, color
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The Dynamics of Cultural Evolution

The Central Role of Purposive Behaviors
 
Kiadás sorszáma: 1st ed. 2022
Kiadó: Springer
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This book explores the nature of cultural and culturally structured social and behavioral entities, their evolutionary interactions, and the central role purposive behaviors play in those interactions. It, first, makes the case for cultural and cultural structured systems being considered as true entities bounded in time and space, and not ephemera in a constant state of becoming another system. Second, it examines how these entities interact to produce evolutionary culture change. It then argues that the intent of purposive behaviors is reliably knowable in the aggregate, at least when dealing with expressions of behavioral tendencies in the animal kingdom, humans included. Finally, the book references well documented behavioral tendencies for examples of proximate causation in the evolution of settled village societies and, following that, socially complex societies. Through these efforts, the book synthesizes the various approaches to the evolution of culture and providesa complete and comprehensive picture of the process. It provides a corrective to the tendency to view cultural systems as entirely open ended and as capable of changing in any direction; and also to treating cultural evolution as solely a result of selective forces, that is, in terms of only ultimate causation. This book provides an engaging and critical counterview to established theories of cultural evolution and is of interest to scholars and students of different disciplines, from anthropology and archeology, to evolutionary biology and epigenetics.

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This book explores the nature of cultural and culturally structured social and behavioral entities, their evolutionary interactions, and the central role purposive behaviors play in those interactions. It, first, makes the case for cultural and cultural structured systems being considered as true entities bounded in time and space, and not ephemera in a constant state of becoming another system. Second, it examines how these entities interact to produce evolutionary culture change. It then argues that the intent of purposive behaviors is reliably knowable in the aggregate, at least when dealing with expressions of behavioral tendencies in the animal kingdom, humans included. Finally, the book references well documented behavioral tendencies for examples of proximate causation in the evolution of settled village societies and, following that, socially complex societies. Through these efforts, the book synthesizes the various approaches to the evolution of culture and provides a completeand comprehensive picture of the process. It provides a corrective to the tendency to view cultural systems as entirely open ended and as capable of changing in any direction; and also to treating cultural evolution as solely a result of selective forces, that is, in terms of only ultimate causation. This book provides an engaging and critical counterview to established theories of cultural evolution and is of interest to scholars and students of different disciplines, from anthropology and archeology, to evolutionary biology and epigenetics.


Tartalomjegyzék:
- 1. Introduction. - 2. The Evolution of Evolutionary Theory in Biology. - 3. Borrowing from Biology. - 4. That Complex Whole: The Structure of Culture and the Kinds of Cultural and Culturally Structured Entities. - 5. That Complex Whole and its Evolutionary Dynamics. - 6. The Deaths and Births of Cultural Systems. - 7. Chance, Agency, and Loaded Dice. - 8. Proximate Causation and Pattern Part I: The Paths to Food Production. - 9. Proximate Causation and Pattern Part 2: The Paths to Social Complexity. - 10. Agency, Proximate Causation, and the Sloshing Bucket.