Understanding Society: Cultural Analysis and Transformative Processes

Abstract

nthropologists reckon that evolution is the natural process by which new forms originate. Like organic evolution, social evolution facilitated the growth of social institutions. Over centuries, the queries like how people make a living, how they interact with each other, how they organize their life, what about their belief system etc., were of great concern among scholars, especially among the anthropologists. There are certain factors that determine the patterns of subsistence in the society. Today the structure of the society has underwent change drastically from the earlier categories. As evolution is a gradual process of transformation, anthropologists accept that “from hunting gathering societies and agrarian societies to present industrial and post industrial society” transformation occurred in a natural way over centuries.