Psychology 3845 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Marina Hyde, Gwyneth Paltrow, Teddy Bear
17 Dec 2016
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The understanding of cultural evolution is darwinian but without being neo- He is trying to say that some aspects of culture we can understand simply on their o(cid:449)(cid:374) ter(cid:373)s, you do(cid:374)(cid:859)t ha(cid:448)e to look at (cid:271)iology at all. A good example is the way in which we can understand fashion trends, you have variation in which some things are popular then others and other things die out (darwinian) He points out of how people tend to look at culture in this way. He talks about herb and spencer (cid:862)progressi(cid:448)e(cid:863) (cid:448)ie(cid:449)s of (cid:272)ultural e(cid:448)olutio(cid:374). You start off with savages and then build up to civilization. We do not hold with these views (these are the views of white victorian gentlemen) and that is what everyone was sort of moving towards. Tylor came up with the process of how we should understand cultural evolution. We are looking at people who are not different but were at the earlier stage of evolution.
