Michael Wheeler / John Ziman / Margaret A. Boden (eds.)

The Evolution of Cultural Entities

Herausgeber: Wheeler, Michael; Boden, Margaret A; Ziman, John

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Since Darwin, scholars have noted that cultural entities such as languages, laws, firms, and theories seem to 'evolve' through sequences of variation, selection, and replication, in many ways just like living organisms. These essays consider whether modern evolutionary theory can help us to understand the dynamics of different cultural domains.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 164mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780197262627
• ISBN-10: 0197262627
• Artikelnr.: 47795685

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Selectionist Reasoning as a Tool of Thought
* Heritable Variation and Competitive Selection as the Mechanism of
Sociocultural Evolution
* Between Development and Evolution: How to Model Cultural Change
* Between Evolution and History: Biology, Culture and the Myth of Human
Origins
* An Integrating Scaffold: Toward an Autonomy-Theoretic Modelling of
Cultural Change
* Culture
* Learning from Culture
* Choosing the Selectors
* Evolutionary Theorizing in Economics
* The Evolution of Technological Knowledge: Reflections on
Technological Innovation as an Evolutionary Process
* Idiosyncratic Production Regimes: Co-evolution of Economic and Legal
Institutions in the Varieties of Capitalism
* The Evolution of Education: Change and Reform
* The Evolution of Merged Culture, Genes and Computing Artefacts