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The transformational conception of social activity provides a non-deterministic framework
within which evolutionary models of natural selection can be located, and constitutes an
alternative to sociological and economic traditions that adopt a deterministic conception of
social processes, in which the causal effects of social structures, or technology, for example,
are conceptualized in a deterministic way. Natural selection processes can be conceptualized
as a more specific instance of this broad (non-deterministic) transformational conception,
and hence can provide additional insight whenever addressing cases where a more specific
model is required.
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Transformational conception of social activity Evolutionary processes Economic methodology Technology Social structures
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MARTINS, Nuno Miguel Ornelas - A Transformational Conception of Evolutionary Processes. Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review. ISSN 1349-4961. Vol. 6, N.º 1 (2009), p. 71–102