Title: Social Evolutionism: How Did Modern Society Develop?
Headings: Social Evolutionism
Social Evolutionism
What Social Evolutionism Means
Where the Notion Comes From
Greeks and Romans
Gender and Race Issues
Social Evolution in the 21st Century
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Content: Social Requirements: Society has a set of functional requirements that shape itself: aspects of human nature such as reproduction and sustenance, external environment aspects such as climate and human life, and social existence aspects, the behavioral constructs that make it possible to live together. Increasing Division of Labor: As population disrupts previous "equilibriums", society evolves by intensifying the functioning of each special individual or class
Origin of Social Species: Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, that is to say, the embryonic development of a society is echoed in its growth and change, albeit with outside forces able to alter the direction of those changes. Where the Notion Comes From
In the mid-19th century, social evolution came under the influence of Charles Darwin 's physical evolution theories expressed in Origin of Species and The Descent of Man, but social evolution is not derived from there. The 19th-century anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan is often named as the person who first applied evolutionary principles to social phenomena. In retrospect (something that is tantalizingly easy to do in the 21st century), Morgan's notions that society moved inexorably through stages he termed as savagery, barbarism, and civilization seem backward and narrow. But it wasn't Morgan who saw that first: