19+ Meme Theory

Meme a cultural unit an idea or value or pattern of behavior that is passed from one person to another by non genetic means as by imitation.

Meme theory. In sociology and linguistics it was frame semantics that explored the conceptual structure of social settings and thought processes. Do we come up with ideas or do they in fact control us. Consider the invention of fire and the wheel as fundamental technologies that. The term meme was coined in richard dawkins 1976 book the selfish gene but dawkins later distanced himself from the resulti. Mankind s greatest inventions are all the result of individual flashes of inspiration or are they. 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. 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.

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. Proponents describe memetics as an approach to evolutionary models of cultural information transfer.