Society or culture: classic evolutionism, Durkheim, historical particularism, culture and personality, functionalism and structural-functionalism

Society or culture: classic evolutionism, Durkheim, historical particularism, culture and personality, functionalism and structural-functionalism

Evolutionism

The theory of evolutionism, as set forth by Charles Darwin in 1859, stated that all plant and animal life evolved over long periods of time from simple to more complicated forms through mutation and adaptation. He also taught that only the fittest of each species would survive. He further postulated that the first living cell evolved in a "warm warm little pond" and that it took billions of years for the present diversity of living ...