Martins, Nuno2014-06-052014-06-052009MARTINS, Nuno Miguel Ornelas - A Transformational Conception of Evolutionary Processes. Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review. ISSN 1349-4961. Vol. 6, N.º 1 (2009), p. 71–102http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/14486The 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.engTransformational conception of social activityEvolutionary processesEconomic methodologyTechnologySocial structuresjournal article10.14441/eier.6.71