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Goudsbloms Gesetz der drei Stadien: Die globale Ausbreitung soziokultureller Merkmale in der Menschheitsgeschichte
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dc.contributor.authorWilterdink, Nicode
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-25T13:55:54Z
dc.date.available2023-10-18T23:00:04Z
dc.date.issued2023de
dc.identifier.issn0172-6404de
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/86485
dc.description.abstractIn several publications, Johan Goudsblom advanced a “law of three stages” concerning the spread of certain socio-cultural traits (x, y, z...) over humanity. In the first stage, no human society has trait x; in the second stage, some societies have that trait; and in the third stage, all societies have the trait. Important examples of such traits pertain to what Goudsblom has depicted as the great “ecological transformations” in human history: the control of fire, the domestication of plants and animals, and industrialisation. Other examples are metallurgy, writing, money, state organisation, clocks, and computers. This paper elaborates this model and explores its scope, validity, and usefulness for understanding long-term trends in human history. It discusses the model’s theoretical implications (section 2), causal interconnections between socio-cultural traits that spread globally (section 3), explanations for the transition from the second to the third stage (section 3, which includes a brief discussion of Cultural Darwinism), and different mechanisms by which socio-cultural traits spread from some to more societies (section 4). Section 5 deals with the consequences of this spread for power relations between societies. Section 6 focuses on recent developments, including the digital revolution and the transition from the use of fossil fuels to the exploitation of other energy sources. The concluding section discusses briefly the scope and validity of Goudsblom’s “law of three stages” in view of these recent developments.de
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dc.subject.ddcSoziologie, Anthropologiede
dc.subject.ddcSociology & anthropologyen
dc.subject.ddcGeschichtede
dc.subject.ddcHistoryen
dc.subject.otherJohan Goudsblom; law of three stages; process model; social evolution; diffusion; cultural growth; competitive advantages; power resources; Cultural Darwinism; ways of spreading; socio-cultural Traits; human history; global spread; power inequalities; powerde
dc.titleGoudsblom's Law of Three Stages: The Global Spread of Socio-Cultural Traits in Human Historyde
dc.title.alternativeGoudsbloms Gesetz der drei Stadien: Die globale Ausbreitung soziokultureller Merkmale in der Menschheitsgeschichtede
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dc.source.journalHistorical Social Research
dc.source.volume48de
dc.publisher.countryDEUde
dc.source.issue1de
dc.subject.classozSoziologiede
dc.subject.classozSociologyen
dc.subject.classozGeschichtede
dc.subject.classozHistoryen
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dc.source.pageinfo84-104de
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dc.source.issuetopicLong-Term Processes in Human Historyde
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.48.2023.05de
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