Cultural complexity

Sociality influences cultural complexity.

Archaeological and ethnohistorical evidence suggests a link between a population's size and structure, and the diversity or sophistication of its toolkits or technologies. Addressing these patterns, several evolutionary models predict that both the size and social interconnectedness of populations can contribute to the complexity of its cultural repertoire. Some models also predict that a sudde...

Cultural Complexity of Pastoral Nomads

The Evolution of Cultural Resilience and Complexity

The study of memetics has thus far mostly applied a reductionist view of genetics to describe the pathogenic infectivity and transmission dynamics of ideas/memes. In this position paper, we take a first look at some of the distinctive attributes of cultural evolution through the lens of complexity science and theoretical biology. The article comments briefly on connections between memetics and ...

Digitising Cultural Complexity: Representing Rich Cultural Data in a Big Data environment

One of the major terminological forces driving ICT integration in research today is that of "big data." While the phrase sounds inclusive and integrative, "big data" approaches are highly selective, excluding input that cannot be effectively structured, represented, or digitised. Data of this complex sort is precisely the kind that human activity produces, but the technological imperative to en...

The complexity of social/cultural dimension in communication disorders.

There has been growing recognition in the field of communication disorders concerning the importance of multicultural and diversity issues. This discussion needs to move beyond the theoretical and descriptive stage to the clinical use of this knowledge to improve the communicative functioning of diverse populations. This paper argues that the tenets of evidence-based practice and the Internatio...