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Cultural evolution can be applied to help create beneficial social change. Cultural change integrates individual agency and population level emergence. Applied efforts to modify culture via intentional intervention are ubiquitous, from corporate advertisement and and political propaganda to public service announcements and scientific communication. At the Cultural Evolution Society, we ask how cultural evolution can be used to encourage, not control, beneficial and inclusive social change.

The Cultural Evolution Society supports several Applied Working Groups developing and applying cultural evolutionary theory to real-world problems. These include:

1. Hunter Gatherer Education (ongoing)
2. Natural Resource Management (complete)
3. Sustainability (ongoing)
4. Culture as a tool (closed)

Learn more about our Applied Working Groups.

Cultural evolution can be applied to help create beneficial social change. Much of cultural change is already the result of intentional intervention from advertisement and propaganda to public service announcement and scientific communication. Cultural evolution provides three common mechanisms that have relevance across societies and context domains. We call these foundations:

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