The Principles of Social EvolutionDispelling 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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... celebrated ' three functions ' , so brilliantly elucidated by the work of Dumézil ' . . . the central motif of Indo- European ideology [ is ] the conception according to which the world and society can live only through the harmonious ...
... celebrated ' three functions ' , so brilliantly elucidated by the work of Dumézil ' . . . the central motif of Indo- European ideology [ is ] the conception according to which the world and society can live only through the harmonious ...
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... celebrating its meetings by a periodical festival , may find parallels in any civilised nation at any age of the world . ( Stubbs 1880 : I. 469 ) 19 Whether the institutions that will be examined here were common to a wider range of ...
... celebrating its meetings by a periodical festival , may find parallels in any civilised nation at any age of the world . ( Stubbs 1880 : I. 469 ) 19 Whether the institutions that will be examined here were common to a wider range of ...
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... celebrated by the guild . In particular , it was the solemn obligation of guild members to pray for the souls of deceased brothers , to sing psalms , to pay for masses for the dead , and to distribute alms to the poor . While all 366 ...
... celebrated by the guild . In particular , it was the solemn obligation of guild members to pray for the souls of deceased brothers , to sing psalms , to pay for masses for the dead , and to distribute alms to the poor . While all 366 ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Inheritance and variation | 47 |
Competition and cooperation | 56 |
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