Even if things became difficult at times, it would all work out in the end. It was used as a justification for colonial exploitation. We were culturally and biologically superior,' people argued. Because sociocultural evolution means something very different today, he stresses. In the last 50 years, new views have developed.
Scholars understand sociocultural evolution as a set of processes that have to be understood.
It's an important framework for looking at how we're developing. If there is one fundamental feature to society, it's that we're in a constant state of change. We need to give more thought to that process. We need to pay attention to how change is happening. But the postmodernist school of thought that holds sway in much of today's academy won't give sociocultural evolution the time of day, Trigger notes.