Social Evolution

Social
Evolution
ALFIO I. REGLA
Social Evolution
- the process of social development from
an early simple type of social organization to
one that is complex and highly specialized.
- is a process of directional social change,
and evolutionary theories attempt to
describe and explain this process.
Intended Learning Outcome
1. Discuss how technologies transform
societies;
2. Discuss how do societies evolve.
3. Describe the digital paradigm of social
evolution.
Class Activity
Smartphone Computer
1 1
2 2
3 3
4 4
5 5
How did Technology Changed Society?

Creative Destruction
- described as the dismantling of long-standing

practices in order to make way for innovation.
- was first coined by Austrian economist Joseph
Schumpeter in 1942.
-Schumpeter describes creative destruction as
innovations in the manufacturing process that
increase productivity, but the term has been adopted
for use in many other contexts.
CREATIVE DESTRUCTION
- describes the deliberate dismantling of established

processes in order to make way for improved methods of
production.
- The term is most often used to describe disruptive
technologies such as the railroads or, in our own time, the
Internet.
It was coined in the early 1940s by economist Joseph
Schumpeter, who observed real-life examples of creative
destruction, such as Henry Ford’s assembly line.
Empirical Evidence of Creative Destruction
 Second Kondratieff: Railroad firms founding
Empirical Evidence of Creative Destruction
Cars Manufacturers
Assignment
https://www.alexa.com/topsites
Look for the Philippine ranking of top 50

visited website and discuss why the site
gain popularity?
Group 1 – top 1-10
Group 2 – top 11-20
Group 3 – top 21 – 30
Group 4 – top 31 – 40
Group 5 – top 41 - 50
What are the requisites?
Generic Services – intangible parts,
software, OS, apps.
What are the requisites?
happened at the skills also often
cultural changes that are needed to
embrace digitalization.
Post Industrial Society (Bell,
1973)
- There is a focus on new technologies, how to
create and utilize them as well as harness them.
- New technologies foster the need for new scientific
approaches like IT and cybersecurity.
- Society needs more college graduates with
advanced knowledge who can help develop and
advance technological change.
Fifth Kondratiev (Perez, 1983)
Information Society (Webster,
1995)
Frank Webster notes five major types of information
that can be used to define information society:
technological, economic, occupational, spatial and
cultural.
-According to Webster, the character of information
has transformed the way that we live today. How we
conduct ourselves centers around theoretical
knowledge and information.
Digital Age (Negroponte,
1995)
Biotechnology is going to "govern the next
decade of thought" at research institutions
like the MIT Media Lab, says its founder
Nicholas Negroponte.
Credited as the first to predict the impact of
the digital age, Negroponte used his opening
speech at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT)'s Being Material symposium
last week to lay out his forecast for the next
stage in technological advancement.
1995)
"Biotech is the new digital," he proclaimed.
"That world is coming together."
Negroponte attributed Nobel Prize-winning
physicist Richard Feynman's research in
nanotechnology – first presented in 1959 – as
the trigger for developments in this field,
which are now beginning to affect the way we
live.
1995)
The use of living systems and organisms to
make or develop products has increased
dramatically in recent years.
- Clothing created by bacteria, buildings
powered by algae and engineered glow-in-
the-dark plants are just a few examples
Network Society ( Castells,
1996)
- The concept of the network society is
closely associated with interpretation of
the social implications of globalization
and the role of electronic
communications technologies in society.
Network Society ( Castells,
1996)
- The definition of a network society given by
the foremost theorist of the concept, Manuel
Castells (2004 p. 3) is that it is 'a society
whose social structure is made up of
networks powered by micro-electronics-
based information and communications
technologies.
Age of information and communication
technology (Freeman & Louca, 2001)
- How can we best understand the impact of
revolutionary technologies on the business
cycle, the economy, and society?
-Why is economics meaningless without
history and without an understanding of
institutional and technical change?
Does the 'new economy' mean the 'end of
history'?"

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How did Technology Changed Society?

- described as the dismantling of long-standing

- describes the deliberate dismantling of established

Look for the Philippine ranking of top 50

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