Cultural change Quotes

“Cultural change works orders of magnitude faster then genetic change. Stephen Jay Gould”

“Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.”

“The decline of violence isn't a steady inclined plane from an original state of maximal and universal bloodshed. Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.”

“Every new form of communication brings with it a perennial angst about what it is doing to our brains. We are not the first to feel that everything is changing too quickly around us, and we won't be the last. Throughout history, communication technologies have been catalysts of societal and cultural change that upset the status quo.”

“(Dune's Frank) Herbert made religion the inescapable instrument of cultural change.”

“If progress is not the right word for buildings or poems, what is the right way to evaluate cultural change? I suggest integrity.”

“The author reveals a cultural change that took place when clergy were paid based on a tax on the land's value rather than what it produced. This meant that, while parishioners could suffer through a terrible year, clergy would always have a comfortable one.”

“The common-sense notion that 'There is a time and place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the social order by assigning social meanings to spaces and times.”