social evolution

is a development from band, through tribe, chiefdom, and resulting in the state.

is temporalization imposed upon spatial and societal differences.

Nineteenth-century schemes of social evolution, as anthropologist know well, relied on a temporalization of spatial and societal difference that was very close to that found in mid-twentiethcentury modernization theory. . . . .In their speculative schemas of human history, 'primitive' societies revealed the earliest history of the human species, while more 'advanced' societies showed intermediate stages in a universal human journey from (to use Morgan's categories) the various 'statuses' of 'savagery' through 'barbarism' and finally to 'civilization.' (Ferguson 2006:179)

is the idea that in human life there has been a development of structural systems by divergence or variation, and a development of more complex systems from simpler ones.

The theory of social evolution depends on this concept, since that theory is that in human life there has been a development of different types of structural systems by divergence or variation, and a development of more complex systems from simpler ones. A social structure is an arrangement of persons in relationships defined and regulated by institutions... and an institution is an established pattern of conduct, or a set of patterns, relating to some feature of social life. (R-Brown 1949: 322)

is the mistaken idea that in human life there has been a development of structural systems.

social evolution, n.Definitions

social evolution