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Evolutionary Theories of Culture

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F13%3A10194199" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/13:10194199 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Evolutionary Theories of Culture

  • Original language description

    The Aim of this paper is an analysis and comparison of evolutionary theories of culture that have been created in so called evolutionary social sciences. The article focuses on the theories of culture, which are based on Darwinian theory of evolution. Although the theory of evolution is a common denominator of these theories of culture, each of them uses a framework of theory of evolution in a diff erent way, and accentuates the diverse facets of culture in general. On the grounds of similarities and diff erences the article sugg ests to divide the existing evolutionary theories of culture into four main groups. The main argument is that the groups of theories of culture address diff erent structural levels of culture. The common denominator of cultural research within evolutionary social sciences is the application of an etic approach to culture. Culture is reduced to behavior; with the exception of theorists of behavioral ecology who use a concept of a heritable information to explai

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

  • CEP classification

    AC - Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology

  • OECD FORD branch

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Others

  • Publication year

    2013

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Culturologia

  • ISSN

    1805-2886

  • e-ISSN

  • Volume of the periodical

    2

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    1

  • Country of publishing house

    CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

  • Number of pages

    8

  • Pages from-to

    4-11

  • UT code for WoS article

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database