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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: An
    title: Essay Concerning Sociocultural Evolution
    sub title: Theoretical Principles and Mathematical Models
  name:
    name part: Klüver, Jürgen.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2002
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (vii, 242 pages)
  abstract: The volume deals with the question of regularities in the course of sociocultural evolution. The evolutionary process of societies is defined as the generation of social roles and their relations; a role is understood as a pair of social rules and role specific knowledge. Accordingly evolution is the growth of cultural knowledge and the development of a network of social roles. These theoretical assumptions are clarified and tested via a mathematical model, i.e., a sociocultural algorithm (SCA). Computer simulations show that the evolutionary course of societies is determined by an evolutionary parameter, that is the degree of differentiation or role autonomy respectively. An additional model of cognitive ontogenesis is provided; it can be shown that cognitive ontogenesis and sociocultural evolution are interdependent processes which basically follow the same logic. These considerations and results offer an explanation for the unique evolutionary path of Western civilization.
  table of contents: 1. Sociocultural evolution: a concept and its difficulties -- 2. A theoretical model of sociocultural evolution -- 3. The mathematics of social processes -- 4. A mathematical model of sociocultural evolution -- 5. Conclusions: The logic of Evolution or are there something like historical laws?- References -- Index.
  note: by Jürgen Klüver.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy (General)
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
  classification: B1-5802
  classification: 10
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Theory and decision library. 34
      part number: Series A
      part name: Philosophy and methodology of the social sciences
  identifier: 9789401599764 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9401599769 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9789048160754
  identifier: 9048160758
  identifier: 9401599769
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    record content source: AU@
    record creation date: 130321
    record change date: 20260422223448.6
    record identifier: in00003579315
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng