Title: Cultural Dynamics - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
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Content: clothing above). In such cultures powerful adaptive individual-group dynamics characterise all orders of organisation. Culture plays an intimate role in our lives, not simply as mental contents but as embedded in our personality structure, general assumptions and orientations, and our methods and supporting skills and throughout our economy. Understanding cultural change involves characterising such features as clothing dynamically, placing the interactive complex of these cultural features in their organismic, communal and ecological settings, and capturing the delicate shaped/ shaping interaction dynamics that makes human cultures so powerfully creative and adaptive. That parts of clothing, such as hats, can be artificially extracted and their changes recorded no more shows the legitimacy of disassembling cultural features into bundles of objects and ideas than the study of hearts does in the case of the evolution/development of respiration or flight. We should not, e.g., rush to evolutionary heritability conclusions about culture just from patterns of sequential repetition with modification; ripples on a shelving beach show these, as will all similar spatially constrained succession, like urban expansion, plus all processes of self-organisational re-assembly, such as rush-hour queues, all processes of path-dependent biased copying, such as housing design, etc. 75 Instead of the relatively external relationship of infection between cultural memes and persons we may contemplate culture as shaping constraints, mutual entrainment couplings, self-organising path-dependent features, and the like. The bad news arising from this is that our modelling of cultural dynamics is as embryonic as is our biological modelling generally in these respects. The good news is that culture reveals a fascinatingly complex dynamical reality for study.