Special Section: Social change, cultural evolution and human development

2015 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia M. Greenfield
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Special Section

scholarly journals A Model of How Shifting Intelligence Drives Social Movements

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
Noah F. G. Evers ◽  
Patricia M. Greenfield
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Social Intelligence ◽  
Social World ◽  
Practical Intelligence ◽  
The Social ◽  
Do So

Based on the theory of social change, cultural evolution, and human development, we propose a mechanism whereby increased danger in society causes predictable shifts in valued forms of intelligence: 1. Practical intelligence rises in value relative to abstract intelligence; and 2. social intelligence shifts from measuring how well individuals can negotiate the social world to achieve their personal aims to measuring how well they can do so to achieve group aims. We document these shifts during the COVID-19 pandemic and argue that they led to an increase in the size and strength of social movements.

scholarly journals Food as a Tool for Social Change: Introduction to the special section

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Katie Mott ◽  
Maegan Krajewski ◽  
Cheyenne Schoen ◽  
Hanna Goldberg ◽  
Will Cecio
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Special Section

scholarly journals Guttman Scale Analysis and its use to explain Cultural Evolution and Social Change

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rochelle Forrester
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Scale Analysis ◽  
Human Knowledge ◽  
Guttman Scale ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Cultural Traits ◽  
Universal Pattern

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.

Charismatiques et Socio-politiques dans l'Eglise catholique au Quebec

1978 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Reny ◽  
Jean Paul Rouleau
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
The Social ◽  
Close Relationship

This article presents some characteristics of the charismatic and socio-political movements which can be observed in Catho licism in Québec. The authors situate the emergence of these phenomena within the historical and social context of the country since 1960. They thus elucidete the close relationship which exists between the social change and the change in the expression of beliefs. The links which charismatic and socio-political movements appear to have with the cultural evolution of Quebec are such that the authors consider these phenomena as at least as important as the official endeavours of the religious organisation to restore a certain functionality to religion in this society.

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