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An Essay Concerning Sociocultural Evolution

Theoretical Principles and Mathematical Models

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Authors:
  1. Jürgen Klüver

    1. University of Essen, Germany

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Part of the book series: Theory and Decision Library A: (TDLA, volume 34)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Sociocultural Evolution: A Concept and its Difficulties

    • Jürgen Klüver
    Pages 1-38

  3. A Theoretical Model of Sociocultural Evolution

    • Jürgen Klüver
    Pages 39-101

  4. The Mathematics of Social Processes

    • Jürgen Klüver
    Pages 103-136

  5. A Mathematical Model of Sociocultural Evolution

    • Jürgen Klüver
    Pages 137-199

  6. Conclusions: The Logic of Evolution or are There Something Like Historical Laws?

    • Jürgen Klüver
    Pages 201-226

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 227-242
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About this book

Writing about sociocultural evolution is always a complicated enterprise, because the subject is not only difficult in a scientific way but also in a political one. In particular since the events of September 11, 2001 the debates about the differences between cultures and their evolutionary developments have left the fields of pure scientific research once and for all. However, there have probably never been scientific discourses that did not touch the realms of political discussions - Darwin, Marx, the atomic physicists and the recent debates about genetic engineering are just a few examples. The aim of this book is not to take part in these debates but it is written as a contribution to the foundations of evolutionary theories in the social sciences. The readers will have to judge if I have succeeded with it. Perhaps essays like this one will help to clarify the problems we all have to face just now in regard to intercultural discourses. Theoretically and mathematically grounded insights into cultural development as the source of many political problems will not solve to how to deal with them them immediately but may serve as signposts in the long run.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Essen, Germany

    Jürgen Klüver

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: An Essay Concerning Sociocultural Evolution

  • Book Subtitle: Theoretical Principles and Mathematical Models

  • Authors: Jürgen Klüver

  • Series Title: Theory and Decision Library A:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9976-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0750-7Published: 31 July 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6075-4Published: 15 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-9976-4Published: 17 April 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0921-3384

  • Series E-ISSN: 2352-2119

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 242

  • Topics: Philosophy, general, Sociology, general, Anthropology

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