W5.1 Sociocultural evolution / Juhee Cha


  Sociocultural evolution is to describe how society has changed over time. Social and cultural evolution is a process in which structural reconstruction is influenced by time to create qualitatively different behaviors or structures. In other words, society exists in a complex environment and adapts to it. It is inevitable that every society will change. Social and cultural evolutionists agree that processes like evolution lead to social development, while classical social evolutionists have developed many other theories known as evolutionism. Social and cultural evolution has become the dominant theory of early socio-cultural anthropology and social commentary and is associated with such scholars as Auguste Conte, Edward Burnett Tyler, Luis Henry Morgan, Benjamin Kid, T. Hobouse and Herbert Spencer. Classical social evolution theory is most closely related to Auguste Conte and Herbert Spencer's 19th-century works.
  I thought Spencer and Conte's arguments for social and cultural evolution best explained the social and cultural evolution of modern society. Spencer and Conte see society as a kind of organism in its complexity, from chaos to order to specialization. They argue that the process of social growth can be divided into certain stages, and that a new and evolved society is a better society. Its claim that an advanced society is a "better" society deserves to be questioned However, the development of society has also brought about negative aspects, but has enriched many people's thoughts, quality of life. So I agreed that society is growing progressively.
  I wonder what other classmates think. Do you agree with the opinion that social and cultural evolution is growing progressively? And what do you think about the various negative aspects of social and cultural evolution?

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  1. 문수빈April 16, 2020 at 9:06 PM

    I think that if the history of the past we know now is true, today's society appears to have developed in part compared to that of a particular past society. However, I do not think that society has developed into a graph that always rises to a gentle slope without falling unless I think that society has developed in every aspect compared to the past. This is because the argument that the current society is always developing gradually compared to the past society risks denying positive history or customs in the past and may make the error of positively assessing the appearance of a society changing in the wrong direction at present

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