The Neoevolutionists' Perspective Differed from the Nineteenth-Century Evolutionists' Ideas in a Number

question 25

Multiple Choice

The neoevolutionists' perspective differed from the nineteenth-century evolutionists' ideas in a number of ways. The neoevolutionists __________.

• A) assumed a unilineal direction for society from savagery to barbarism to civilization
• B) did not assume that sociocultural evolution toward complexity was always equated with progress
• C) were ethnocentric and racist in their approach to understanding cultural evolution and complexity
• D) assumed that civilization was the pinnacle of sociocultural development

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