Cultural evolution

Origin: Lat. cultūra, evolutĭo, -ōnis

Studies show how cultures and societies have changed over time with special attention to how values, religion, environment, ideas, economics, technology, and memes affect social structures. Many theories of human evolution have resulted from these studies, such as those by Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould on punctuated equilibrium and Edward O. Wilson’s sociobiology. Futurists can apply the assumptions of such theories to help write scenarios.

Spanish: Evolución Cultural.

Sources and references

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Cultural Evolution. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/evolution-cultural/#WhaCulEvoview
Slaughter, Richard A. “Glossary of future terms.”cited 79 times
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociocultural_evolutionview

Term connections

Mentions

Time
Values
Evolution
Futurist
Scenarios

Mentioned by

Meme, memes or memetic code

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