Trace the development of the idea of culture from the social evolutionists through the social structuralists

Culture

Culture is defined as "the knowledge, language, values, customs, and material objects that are passed from person to person and from one generation to the next in a human group or society" (Wax 1997). Cultural evolution is the structural development (change) of a society over time. In this sense, it is the cultural equivalent of biological evolution. The ideas of cultural evolution and of the evolution of societies provide a set of theories that anthropologists have both promoted and criticized throughout its long history. Modern ...