Topic summary
sociogenesis
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Sociocultural evolution.
Sociocultural evolutionism and the idea of progress
- First comes cosmogenesis, creation and evolution of the world.
- Then, when life arises, there is biogenesis.
- Development of humanity leads to anthropogenesis, which is influenced by the human mind.
- Finally there arrives sociogenesis, which is the science of shaping the evolutionary process itself to optimize progress, human happiness and individual self-actualization.