W5 Sociocultural evolution(2)/ SooBin Moon

Sociocultural evolution(2)

 

Summary)
 
     Modern critics have criticized the theory of social evolution, arguing that the concept of social evolution by classical scholars is the justification of power by social elite. Since then, the criticism has become widely accepted and modern people have rejected the world's single concept of human progress and not analyzed only from the western perspective. Scholars who advocate neo-terminalism, in particular, throw away the classic social evolution theory, which dominated many ideas about social progress in previous sociological evolution-related theories.


What's interesting, what's new?)
 
     I was amazed to see the theory of evolution in modern times. Julian Stewart evoked Darwin's concept of adaptation and argued that culture would change in various ways and directions without going through a cultural-like stage because it would change in terms of changing relationships with the environment without changing according to any internal logic. I agree with his position. Society may show similar aspects in the process of changing, but not all can change equally, and the way it changes does not mean that it is wrong or extremely exceptional. Because I think society is originally characterized by diversity.
 
The part I want to discuss with others)

     How do you think society changes? If you think it changes differently, it would be nice if you could tell us a model through which society can change into a different form from Western society through social imagination, even if it is not a real change. (Talcott Parsons Example - (I) primitive or forged; (II) antique agriculture; (III) classical or "history"; (IV) modern experience is a four-step evolutionary process.)

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