LIST OF TABLES •^L e s lie A. W hite, The E v o lu tio n o f C u ltu re . (McGraw-Hill Book Co. : New York. 1959). p . 38. 17 H. Odum, E nvironm ent, Power, and S o c ie ty . (John Wiley and Sons: New York. 1971) o f th e r a c e ." Moreover, S chrodinger suggests th e seocnd law "governs a l l p h y s ic a l and chem ical p r o c e s s e s .. .o rg a n ic l i f e , th e g e n esis o f a com plicated w orld o f organism s from p rim itiv e b e g in n in g s, and th e r i s e 19 and growth o f

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... man c u lt u r e ." The in c lu s io n o f th e l a t t e r nay seem p a r t i c u l a r l y s u r p r is in g in l i g h t o f th e o rd in ary e x p re ssio n s o f c u ltu re in term s o f v a lu e s , b e l i e f s , se n tim e n ts, etc., s u b je c t as th ey a re to th e d i f f i c u l t i e s o f measurement and o p e ra tio n a liz a tio n . As more " s u b je c tiv e " a sp e c ts o f human b e h a v io r, th ey a re c e r t a i n l y d i f f i c u l t t o reduce to t e s t a b l e p ro p o s itio n s and when th e y a r e , o fte n reduce th e 20 s o c io c u ltu r a l d is c ip lin e t o th e realm o f s o c ia l psychology. However, c u ltu r e , d e fin e d as a mechanism which fu n c tio n s t o make l i f e secu re and continuous f o r groups and in d iv id u a ls , nay be u t i l i z e d as an energy c a p tu rin g device f o r s e le c tiv e s u r v iv a l and "ca u sa l" r e la tio n s h ip s 21 in v o lv in g i t e x i s t independently o f v a lu e s. The u t i l i z a t i o n o f energy on a t h e o r e t i c a l le v e l was reco g n ized by S a h lin s and S ervice i n a d d itio n t o White in t h e i r tre a tm e n t o f e v o lu tio n in which th e p r in c ip le d e fin in g v a ria b le f o r g e n e ra l evolu tio n a r y p ro g re s s i s " th e a b so lu te amount o f energy h arn e ssed by th e 22 s o c io -c u ltu r a l system ." A refin em en t o f t h e i r th e o ry was attem p ted F red erick Soddy, M atter and Energy. Hume U n iv e rs ity S e rie s . (Oxford U n iv e rs ity P re ss : London. 1512T) ppT 10-11. 19 Erwin S chrodinger, Science and th e Hunan Temperament. (George, A lle n and Unwin, L td .: London. 1935) p .' 39.' on Jack P. Gibbs and W hiter T. M artin, "Toward a T h e o re tic a l System o f Hunan Ecology" P a c if ic S o c io lo g ic a l Review 2 :1 :2 9 -3 6 . 1959. ^W h ite , The E v o lu tio n o f C u ltu re . p . 70. 22 M arshall D. S a h lin s and E. R. S e rv ic e , "E volution: S p e c ific and G eneral" in M, D. S a h lin s and E. R. S e rv ic e , E v o lu tio n and OuLture. (U n iv e rsity o f Michigan P re ss: Ann A rbor. 1960) p . 3k. ' ~~ ' Rappoport, P ig s For th e A n c esto rs.