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evolution
What is Sociocultural evolution?
He is a macrosociologist
that study the society as a
whole and how it evolves
through time.
Lenski believes that society
evolves through innovation,
transmission and technological
advances.
“Societal survival has been largely
a function of society’s level of
technological advance relative to
the societies with which it has
competition”
-Lenski
“Through
technology, societies
will evolve, change
and survive”
Technology
AND THE
DEVELOPMENT OF
EARLY
CIVILIZATION
4 Major civilizations in the world
Acquisition of power
When there is abuse and
inequality
Social changes (conquerors)
Paradigm shift
“labor theory of value” and
“communist manifesto”
“all society progresses through
dialectic class struggle”-Karl Marx
“War to cease power to make a
humanitarian and just society.”
Core idea