“The tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic and political patterns …it is safe to predict that… such social inventions as modern-type capitalism, facism and communism will be regarded as primitive experiments directed towards the adjustment of modern society to modern methods”
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Ralph Linton
Ralph Linton was an American anthropologist known for his contributions to cultural anthropology. His research involved social structure, cultural change, and human behavior, which had a profound impact on subsequent cultural studies. more
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