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Category Archives: Cultural change
How social structure might drive the evolution of cumulative culture
Humans accumulate knowledge over generations, building vast bodies of expertise—a quality that scientists have long suggested helps make humanity unique. In order to explore how such “cumulative culture” arose, anthropologists examined the way in which hunter-gatherers known as the BaYaka … Continue reading
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Culture and Social change – Ideology and Critique
How do we achieve social justice? How do we change society for the better? Some would argue that we must do it by changing the laws or state institutions. Others that we must do it by changing individual attitudes. I … Continue reading
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Habermas, Rorty and the Politics of Cultural Change
Although Jürgen Habermas and Richard Rorty both reject the traditional picture of cultural change in which intellectuals are supposed to have the ‘last word’ on cultural issues and envisage cultural changes as the result of ‘dialogue’ or ‘conversation’ between them … Continue reading
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Human evolution: why we’re more than great apes
Palaeoanthropologists have used the anatomical signs of bipedalism to identify our earliest ancestors, demonstrating our shared genetic heritage with great apes. However, despite this shared history, human evolution set out on a trajectory that has led to significant distinctions from … Continue reading
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Evolution in Leaps: The punctuated Accumulation and Loss of Cultural Innovations
Archaeological accounts of cultural change reveal a fundamental conflict: Some suggest that change is gradual, accelerating over time, whereas others indicate that it is punctuated, with long periods of stasis interspersed by sudden gains or losses of multiple traits. Existing … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Cultural accumulation, Cultural change, Cultural evolution, Cultural innovations, Cultural population, Social stratification
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Change in Society can arise only from Cultural Change
Change in society can arise only from cultural change. Literature and Literary Studies represent subsystems within a more comprehensive cultural system in which all patterns of experience and processing of reality are generated, maintained and transformed. Cultural and social transformation … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural change, Cultural practices, Cultural praxis, Cultural transformations, Social change, Social transformation
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The Power of Feasts – From Prehistory to the Present
In this book, Brian Hayden provides the first comprehensive, theoretical work on the history of feasting in pre-industrial societies. As an important barometer of cultural change, feasting is at the forefront of theoretical developments in archaeology. The Power of Feasts … Continue reading
La Social Organization è una Sfida Culturale
I social media si stanno gradualmente affermando anche in ambito aziendale, dove vengono utilizzati al fine di migliorare produttività e collaborazione interna. In questo scenario il web 2.0 è da intendersi come una componente abilitante, che mette a disposizione piattaforme … Continue reading
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Libraries, Social Movements, and Cultural Change – Toward an Alternative Conceptualization of Culture
While sociological conceptualizations of culture span a wide range of metaphors, from codes to elephants to toolkits, they are often insufficiently attuned to the processes through which cultural challenges are advanced by individual and collective actors, and the place of … Continue reading
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The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media
Social media has come to deeply penetrate our lives: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and many other platforms define many of our daily habits of communication and creative production. The Culture of Connectivity studies the rise of social media in the first … Continue reading
Posted in Connectivity, Cultural change, Culture, Digital citizen, Digital culture, Digital technologies, Social media
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