[1001] Meme Theory

Critics contend the theory is untested unsupported or incorrect.

Meme Theory . Meme theory suggests that ideas behaviours or skills are transferred between people through the process of imitation. 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. 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.

Do we come up with ideas or do they in fact control us. Memetics is the study of information and culture based on an analogy with darwinian evolution. 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.

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. Mankind s greatest inventions are all the result of individual flashes of inspiration or are they. The term meme was coined in richard dawkins 1976 book the selfish gene but dawkins later distanced himself from the resulti.

In sociology and linguistics it was frame semantics that explored the conceptual structure of social settings and thought processes.