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Guttman Scale Analysis and its use to explain Cultural Evolution and Social Change
- Author(s):
- Rochelle Forrester (see profile)
- Date:
- 2019
- Group(s):
- Historical theory and the philosophy of history
- Subject(s):
- Social evolution, History--Philosophy, Macrosociology
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Robert Carneiro, guttman scale analysis, scalogram, big history, speculative philosophy of history, substantive philosophy of history, teleological history, Cultural evolution, Philosophy of history
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/963y-vg78
- Abstract:
- Guttman scale analysis is a very useful tool to understand the evolution of societies. It shows the accumulation of cultural traits throughout history in various societies and that those cultural traits were usually accumulated in the same order. The results of studies, by Robert Carneiro and others, shows the accumulation of cultural traits is not random and indicates a universal pattern in cultural evolution. The universal pattern is caused by increasing human knowledge of the environment we live in. Human societies usually acquire this knowledge in the same order, with easier discoveries concerning the natural world being made earlier than more complex discoveries. This means human social and cultural history, usually follows a particular course, a course that is determined by the structure of the human environment.
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- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 4 years ago
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