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What is the main assertion of the Unilineal Evolution hypothesis?
What is the primary basis for classifying societies into universal evolutionary stages?
What is the term used to describe the expansive arrangement of hypotheses that explain how and why modern societies differ from those in the past?
According to Perrin, what did Herbert Spencer's social evolution studies focus on?
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What is the characteristic of societies that are further ahead in the social evolution process, according to Herbert Spencer?
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What is the purpose of classifying societies into universal evolutionary stages?
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What shapes society according to its functional requirements?
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What is the result of the increasing division of labor in society?
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What is the development of society likened to?
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Who is credited with applying the principles of evolution to social phenomena?
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What was the perspective of ancient scholars such as Polybius and Thucydides on early Roman and Greek cultures?
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What stages did Lewis Henry Morgan propose that society moves through?
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What influenced the 17th and 18th century social evolutionists' research?
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According to Aristotle, how did society develop?
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What is a common view of change among social evolutionists?
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What do social evolutionists often exclude from their considerations?
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How do social evolutionists often arrange social or cultural forms?
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What marked the industrial revolution, according to the text?
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What marked the start of the development of computers?
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What is a characteristic of the long waves of social evolution?
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What is a consequence of the end of a wave in social evolution?
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What is a result of more people having access to information on the World Wide Web?
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What is a negative effect of the information overload on the internet?
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What is a positive effect of the access to more information online?
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What is the benefit of understanding the cause-effect dynamics?
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What is the outcome of linking the problem at hand to others who have encountered similar concerns?
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What is the importance of continual learning in today's society?
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What is the result of easy access to information?
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What is social evolution primarily concerned with?
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What is the scope of social evolution theories?
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