  Development   The idea of the sociofact was developed extensively by David Bidney in his  textbook Theoretical Anthropology .
<meaning-changed>   Development   The idea of the sociofact was developed extensively by David Bidney in his  textbook Theoretical Anthropology .
 Development These concepts have been useful to anthropologists in refining the definition of culture, which Huxley views as contemplating artifacts, mentifacts, and sociofacts. For instance, Edward Tylor, the first academic anthropologist, included both artifacts and abstract concepts like kinship systems as elements of culture. Anthropologist Robert Aunger, however, explains that such an inclusive definition ends up encouraging poor anthropological practice because "it becomes difficult to distinguish what exactly is not part of culture." Aunger goes on to explain that, after the cognitive revolution in the social sciences in the 1960s, there is "considerable agreement" among anthropologists that a mentifactual analysis, one that assumes that culture consists of "things in the head" (i.e. mentifacts), is the most appropriate way to define the concept of culture. The idea of the sociofact was developed extensively by David Bidney in his textbook Theoretical Anthropology .