Evolution of Sociopolitical Institutions in North-East Yemen (The 1st Millennium BCE–The 2nd Millennium CE)

Korotayev, Andrey

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“…Grinin 2003c;2004;2007a, book 2;2007d;Grinin, Korotayev 2007c) or to the creation of fundamentally new forms of complex political organization, qualitatively differing from state systems (see, e.g. Korotayev 1997Korotayev , 2000aKorotayev , 2000bKorotayev , 2020aKorotayev , 2021Korotayev, Kradin et al 2000). Such a development could lead, for example, to over-sacralization of the ruler, the over-complexity of family ties and emergence of an aristocratic class of privileged families and family lines, to the complication of network horizontal (rather than vertical hierarchical) connections, to the rigid consolidation of professional and social differences (caste system); to the establishment of confederations of tribes, civil communities or cities without a strong central authority (but with effective alternative mechanisms for intersocietal integration), or other models (Korotayev, Kradin et al 2000).…”

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“…For the emergence of significant social aromorphoses, a certain social scale (much broader than that of a single society, often the scale of the World-System) and a considerable 'species' variety of social forms are required (see, e.g., Grinin 1997a;1997b, 2020a. Thus, the emergence of the primary machine-production system in the English cotton industry in the 1730-1760s, and later the emergence of the steam engine system were influenced by the general level of development, integration and needs of Europe and around the world, on the one hand, and on the other, by unique features of Britain's previous history (about this see in Grinin 2003a: 139-140; and by events which seem quite sporadic for the emergence of machine industry.…”

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“…For example, acephalous communities should be replaced by chiefdoms, and the chiefdoms, in turn, by the early state. But in reality, it could very often happen differently (see, e.g., Korotayev, Kradin et al 2000;Bondarenko et al 2002;Korotayev 2003aKorotayev , 2003bGrinin 2007c;Carneiro, Grinin, Korotayev 2017;Korotayev 2021).…”

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Social Evolution: Theoretical Aspects and General Outlines

Grinin,

Korotayev

2023

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The present article is devoted to social evolution both as a part of macroevolution and as a specific process that have led humanity to outstanding successes and heights (while creating in the meantime serious crises and major problems). The article examines important theoretical aspects of social evolution within the framework of a more general approach, which we call evolutionary studies. The authors give a definition of social evolution, examine its most important mechanisms, compare it with biological evolution, introduce the concept of social aromorphosis, and analyse the concept of unilinear and multilinear evolution. We show that only by considering the evolution as multilinear one can identify the major trends and patterns of social evolution and evolution in general. The authors view social evolution both as changes in a relatively local and not so long-term perspective and as a larger process that we call social macroevolution. In our understanding, social macroevolution is a special dimension of social evolution that encompasses a series of the most important and milestone transformations that have led to the emergence and development of the World System (and, accordingly, a theory that focuses on their analysis). The genesis of the World System and a number of its further changes are the key elements of the social macro-evolutionary process. Moreover, the emergence of the World System was not only the most important result of the entire previous course of social evolution, but also became, in a certain sense, the threshold beyond which it is absolutely necessary to distinguish social macroevolution as a special supra-social part of social evolution (i.e., the part that no longer relates to the level of only individual society). The main trends of macroevolution, such as the irreversibility of evolution, its particular direction, variability, are expressed both in the systemic features and in the transformations of the World System. The article was prepared as a part of the research work of the state task of the RANEPA.

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Social Evolution: Theoretical Aspects and General Outlines

Grinin,

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2023

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“…8 It is a peculiar ideology of tribal solidarity, which allows tribal people to be united into a powerful military force, for example, when putting together groups of tribes. Therefore, Morton Fried (1975) has reason to state that tribes are the secondary non-primitive formations emerging under the influence of neighboring communities with significantly higher level of sociocultural complexity (see also Korotayev 1997aKorotayev , 1997bKorotayev , 2000aKorotayev , 2000bKorotayev , 2003Korotayev , 2004Korotayev , 2006bKorotayev , 2020aKorotayev , 2021Grinin 2007a). 9 We also assume that with the increase in barbarians' asabiyyah the rate of borrowing of military technologies of civilization increases (this assumption is modeled by Eq.…”

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“…From the sixteenth to the first half of the twentieth century (especially the nineteenth -the first half of the twentieth century) the phase transition was connected with the transition to the industrial principle of production. The period from the end of the twentieth century and (presumably) the whole twenty-first century is connected with the transition to scientific and information / cybernetic principle of production (for more detail see Grinin 2006;Grinin L., Grinin, A., Korotayev 2017a, 2017b, 2020a, 2020b.…”

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Mathematical Model of Interaction between Civilization Center and Tribal Periphery: A Description

Korotayev¹,

Гринин²,

Гринин³

2021

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This article offers a mathematical model describing the influence of one of the major factors of the World System's macrodynamics throughout most of its history (since the 'urban revolution') -the interaction between civilizations and their tribal peripheries. The proposed mathematical model is intended to describe the possible influence of the interaction between the World System civilizational core and its tribal periphery on the formation of the specific curve of the world urbanization dynamics. It simulates completion of the phase transition, behavior of the system in the attraction basin and beginning of the phase transition to the attraction basin of the new attractor and is aimed at identifying the role of the factor of interaction between the civilizational core and barbarian periphery in the formation of attractor effect during the completion of phase transition, that is for clarification of the reasons why there was observed not only the slowdown of growth rates of the main indicators of the World System development after completion of phase transitions during its development, but also their falling with the subsequent temporary stabilization near some equilibrium level.

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