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  2. White's law - Wikipedia

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    White spoke of culture as a general human phenomenon and claimed not to speak of 'cultures' in the plural. His theory, published in 1959 in The Evolution of Culture: The Development of Civilization to the Fall of Rome, rekindled the interest in social evolutionism and is counted prominently among the neoevolutionists. He believed that culture ...

  3. Stuart Hall (cultural theorist) - Wikipedia

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    Stuart Henry McPhail Hall (3 February 1932 – 10 February 2014) was a Jamaican-born British Marxist sociologist, cultural theorist, and political activist.Hall — along with Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams — was one of the founding figures of the school of thought known as British Cultural Studies or the Birmingham School of Cultural Studies.

  4. Freedom and Culture - Wikipedia

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    Original Marxist qualification to this position, allowing that existing social structures can have influence on subsequent events, is removed. Beyond economic determinism, Marxism states that all social change is the result of class warfare, which moves the workers toward liberation from past subjugation, and finally creates a classless society.

  5. Sociocultural evolution - Wikipedia

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    Eventually, in the 19th century three major classical theories of social and historical change emerged: sociocultural evolutionism; the social cycle theory; the Marxist theory of historical materialism. These theories had a common factor: they all agreed that the history of humanity is pursuing a certain fixed path, most likely that of social ...

  6. Antonio Gramsci - Wikipedia

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    Gramsci is best known for his theory of cultural hegemony, which describes how the state and ruling capitalist class — the bourgeoisie — use cultural institutions to maintain wealth and power in capitalist societies. In Gramsci's view, the bourgeoisie develops a hegemonic culture using ideology rather than violence, economic force, or coercion.

  7. Cultural hegemony - Wikipedia

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    The proletarian culture will increase class consciousness, teach revolutionary theory and historical analysis, and thus further develop revolutionary organisation among the social classes. [7] After winning the war of position, socialist leaders would then have the necessary political power and popular support to realise the war of manœuvre ...

  8. History of social democracy - Wikipedia

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    Social democracy has been criticized by both the left and right. The left criticizes social democracy for having betrayed the working class during World War I and for playing a role in the failure of the proletarian 1917–1924 revolutionary wave. It further accuses social democrats of having abandoned socialism. [27]

  9. Social cycle theory - Wikipedia

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    Social cycle theories are among the earliest social theories in sociology.Unlike the theory of social evolutionism, which views the evolution of society and human history as progressing in some new, unique direction(s), sociological cycle theory argues that events and stages of society and history generally repeat themselves in cycles.