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Cultural ecology as developed by Steward is a major subdiscipline of anthropology. It derives from the work of Franz Boas and has branched out to cover a number of aspects of human society, in particular the distribution of wealth and power in a society, and how that affects such behaviour as hoarding or gifting (e.g. the tradition of the potlatch on the Northwest North American coast).
Cultural fusion theory (CFT) describes the process that people, typically immigrants, undergo when they come in contact with a new environment and culture. CFT provides an account that differs from more prominent theories of cultural adaptation, which propose models in which immigrants gradually adapt to a new culture while leaving their old culture behind.
Cultural imperialism is the practice of promoting the culture or language of one nation in another, usually occurring in situations in which assimilation is the dominant strategy of acculturation. [53] Cultural imperialism can take the form of an active, formal policy or a general attitude regarding cultural superiority.
A conceptualization describes cultural assimilation as similar to acculturation [5] [6] while another merely considers the former as one of the latter's phases. [1] Throughout history there have been different forms of cultural assimilation. Examples of types of acculturation include voluntary and involuntary assimilation. [7]
The first outline of her theory was found in an article titled, "Toward an Interactive Theory of Communication - Acculturation", [4] leading to a complete rendition of the theory in Communication and Cross-Cultural Adaptation: An Integrative Theory, [1] which was further refined and updated with Becoming Intercultural: An Integrative Theory of ...
From acceptance to adaptation: exploration and research into the other culture begins From adaptation to integration : subject develops empathy towards the other culture. Application of Bennett scale for the study of various topics
Cultural evolution is an evolutionary theory of social change. It follows from the definition of culture as "information capable of affecting individuals' behavior that they acquire from other members of their species through teaching, imitation and other forms of social transmission". [1] Cultural evolution is the change of this information ...
Steward rejected the 19th century notion of progress, and instead called attention to the Darwinian notion of "adaptation," arguing that all societies had to adapt to their environment in some way, but that the process could differ between cultures. [4] Julian Steward thus linked multilinear evolution with the idea of cultural ecology. [4]