I think the term "tribe" is not applicable to savage society, for it is used to denote peoples in all degrees of social evolution, and merely stands for the group which is known by a given name, or roams over a given district.
For each kind and degree of social evolution, there is an appropriate compromise between the moral code of enmity and that of amity; this is, for the time being, authoritative.
It thus neglects the truth which is implied by evolution,--that the organism itself is solving the problem; it neglects the instinctive sense generated by social evolution.
Acknowledgment should also be made of the invaluable criticisms and suggestions in regard to the general theory of social evolution advocated in these pages made by my uncle, Rev.
Japan is neither a purgatory, as some would have it, nor a paradise, as others maintain, but a land full of individuals in an interesting stage of social evolution.
It is the belief of the writer that few countries afford so clear an illustration of the principles involved in social evolution as Japan.
But it is equally impossible to deny that, in any case, the formula of collectivism represents a phase of social evolution, a period of individual discipline which must necessarily precede communism.
The organization of the family is the surest criterion of the stage of social evolution attained by a people.
The Function of Socialization in Social Evolution.
The human environment is in continual flux, and changes more and more quickly as social evolution progresses.
The posthumous Griechische Culturgeschichte of Jakob Burckhardt (1898) throws little light on social evolution.
There is still a tendency to regard society as a sort of divinely ordered mechanism, which, if properly started, will automatically work out the process of social evolution.
This largely explains the popularity among the well-to-do classes of such books as Malthus' Principle of Population and Kidd's Social Evolution.
If, then, we accept the biological theory of social evolution, we are forced to the conclusion that the human race, instead of advancing, is really retrograding.
Also the progress of religion has been exactly parallel to the progress in social evolution, which has itself been dominated by the progress of subjective morals and conscience.
Nothing has ever been strong enough to restrain the economic forces in social evolution.
You think that it is possible to destroy the trusts, to undo the chain of social evolution, to go back twenty or fifty years to competitive conditions.
It is the verdict of all who have made a study of social evolution that, while these factors have exerted an important influence, back of them have been the material economic conditions.
Socialism then, is a philosophy of human progress, a theory of social evolution, the main outlines of which I have already sketched for you.
In a word, social evolution is a gradual achievement of power, the creation of a new condition of society, corresponding to the overthrow of economic relations and the transformation and schooling of character.
The history of intellectual development, therefore, is the key to social evolution, and the key to the history of intellectual development is the Law of the Three States.
Is there any one element which communicates the decisive impulse to all the rest,--any predominating agency in the course of social evolution?
They are thus the double key of Comte's systematization of the philosophy of all the sciences from mathematics to physiology, and his analysis of social evolution, which is the base of sociology.
It has been fashioned by countless generations of social evolution, and, in the main, that evolution has of necessity placed due emphasis upon those intellectual and moral qualities on which social welfare depends.
This is one factor in the phenomenon of social evolution.
Looking at the course of social evolution, we see this increased and increasing capacity expressed in art, industries, inventions, etc.
But there is at every stage in social evolution, a certain range of variation within which it is possible to approach nearer to, or diverge further from, the requirements of absolute equity.
There is surely here more than mere fortuitous coincidence in social evolution.
And yet in the next and higher stage of social evolution, as presented in the amalgamation of groups into a tribe, the acceptation of these outside mates in peaceful connubium is precisely the most characteristic feature.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "social evolution" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
