Culture and Cultural Evolution

Shinji Teraji

Chapter Chapter 5 in Evolving Norms, 2016, pp 207-310 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstracts Culture, as a system of shared beliefs, provides collective understandings in forming peoples’ choices. The existence of culture presupposes a population capable of mental representations. Culture coordinates the expectations of many agents about the actions, and it shapes and structures our daily patterns of behavior, guiding much of what we should do by prescribing what behavior is acceptable. Agents who belong to the same cultural group are exposed to the same external representation of knowledge. In Hayek’s theory of cultural evolution, societies are not only subject to group selection but have developed through a process in which individuals choose the rules that form the social order. New rules undergo some kind of decentralized selection process, as a consequence of which some spread through the population.

Keywords: Social Learning; Group Selection; Cultural Evolution; Path Dependence; Subgame Perfect Equilibrium (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-50247-6_5

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