Meme Theory

Memetics is the study of information and culture based on an analogy with darwinian evolution.

Meme theory. A meme m iː m meem is an idea behavior or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme. In sociology and linguistics it was frame semantics that explored the conceptual structure of social settings and thought processes. Consider the invention of fire and the wheel as fundamental technologies that. Proponents describe memetics as an approach to evolutionary models of cultural information transfer. Do we come up with ideas or do they in fact control us. Meme theory suggests that ideas behaviours or skills are transferred between people through the process of imitation. The term meme was coined in richard dawkins 1976 book the selfish gene but dawkins later distanced himself from the resulti.

Memetics describes how an idea can propagate successfully but doesn t necessarily imply a concept is factual. Memes are the cultural counterpart of genes acculturation culture all the knowledge and values shared by a society biological science biology the science that studies living organisms. Around the time that meme theory was capturing the public imagination there were several researchers giving name to recognizable patterns of human thought and behavior that emerge over and over again.