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Ogburn has treated social change quite differently from recent contributors to this field Toynbee, Sorokin, and Brook Adams. He explains cultural change or evolution by four major concepts: invention, accumulation diffusion and adjustment. Implicit in this notion is the criticism of the error committed by the classical evolutionists in anthropology and sociology when they sought to explain social evolution by employing Darwinian concepts of variation, natural selection, and heredity Orburn recognizes cultural reality as distinct from biological reality. He treats culture growth in the macrocosm, concerning himself “with the larger aspect of the problem.”
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ISBN : 9788121263047
Pages : 382
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