PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -White hypothesized that cultures became more advanced as they became more efficient at harnessing energy and that technology and social organization were both influential in instigating such efficiencies.

Detailed explanation-2: -Neo-evolutionism Neoevolutionism is concerned with long-term, directional, evolutionary social change and with the regular patterns of development that may be seen in unrelated, widely separated cultures. Sociological neoevolutionism emerged in the 1930s.

Detailed explanation-3: -White firmly supported cultural evolution along the lines laid down by the 19th-century writers Lewis H. Morgan and Edward Tylor, even when this view was in great disfavour. For White, cultural evolution was generated by technological changes, particularly with regard to the increased harnessing of energy per capita.