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Metabehaviors As Discriminative Stimuli For Planned Cultural Evolution

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Title Metabehaviors As Discriminative Stimuli For Planned Cultural Evolution
 
Creator Mawhinney, V. Thomas
 
Description The analysis of cultural designs is a prerequisite to successful planned cultural evolution. Essential to this complex goal is the identification of appropriate dependent measures of aggregate population behavior (metabehaviors). Rate of change trends among metabehavioral indicators are suggested as measures of a culture’ s behavioral viability. Criticisms and advantages of such data are identified and discussed. It is argued that such measures are requisite to the evaluation of cultural baseline states and the effects of various cultural changes which may occur fortuitously or through planned change. Recent metabehavioral trends appear to reflect a decline in the viability of the United States.
 
Publisher University of Illinois at Chicago Library
 
Date 1995-06-16
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/bsi/article/view/217
10.5210/bsi.v5i1.217
 
Source Behavior and Social Issues; Volume 5, No. 1 (Spring 1995)
1064-9506
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/bsi/article/view/217/2908