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... cultural change consists of the modification of society and culture through time - modification in social ... cultural change is neither large nor certain . It began barely two centuries ago to differentiate from the vast accumulation of ...
... cultural change consists of the modification of society and culture through time - modification in social ... cultural change is neither large nor certain . It began barely two centuries ago to differentiate from the vast accumulation of ...
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... cultures are made . There are , however , other kinds of recurrent sequences that are not clearly part of the maintenance processes of societies . These have been regarded by some students of cultural change as important for ...
... cultures are made . There are , however , other kinds of recurrent sequences that are not clearly part of the maintenance processes of societies . These have been regarded by some students of cultural change as important for ...
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... cultural system . This is a matter of mutual adaptation system of both the innovation and the parts of the system . There are a host of rather well - known examples of inte- gration . Following its initial acceptance by politically ...
... cultural system . This is a matter of mutual adaptation system of both the innovation and the parts of the system . There are a host of rather well - known examples of inte- gration . Following its initial acceptance by politically ...
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