Question

Why migration is important for social change?

Answer 1

Explanation:

People move to societies that provide a more attractive way of life and, all other things being equal, this process spreads ideas and institutions that promote economic efficiency, social order and equality. Culture is the set of socially acquired ideas, beliefs and values carried by a population of individuals

Answer 2

As cultural evolutionists interested in how societies change over the long term, we have thought a lot about migration, but only recently tumbled to an obvious idea: migration has a profound effect on how societies evolve culturally because it is selective. People move to societies that provide a more attractive way of life and, all other things being equal, this process spreads ideas and institutions that promote economic efficiency, social order and equality.

Culture is the set of socially acquired ideas, beliefs and values carried by a population of individuals. Various processes change the distribution of cultural variants through time. Some processes act at the individual level as people selectively learn ideas, and those ideas affect an individual's chance of teaching others or of being imitated by them, causing some cultural variants to spread and others to disappear. Theory and much empirical data indicate that individual-level processes can stabilize a vast array of beliefs and institutions.

The existence of stable differences between groups means that competition between them also affects cultural evolution. Indeed, a lot of attention has focused on what happens when militarily or economically more powerful societies expand at the expense of weaker ones. For example, many European ideas and institutions spread to the rest of the world as a result of colonial conquests.