Martins, Nuno O.2013-10-142013-10-142009-11-19Martins, Nuno Miguel Ornelas (2009). "A Transformational Conception of Evolutionary Processes", «Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review», 6(1), 71-102.1349-4961 (Print)http://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/2309The transformational conception of social activity provides a non-deterministic Framework within which evolutionary models of natural selection can be located, and constitutes an alternative to sociological and economic traditions that adopt a deterministic conception of social processes, in which the causal effects of social structures, or technology, for example, are conceptualized in a deterministic way. Natural selection processes can be conceptualized as a more specific instance of this broad (non-deterministic) transformational conception, and hence can provide additional insight whenever addressing cases where a more specific model is required.engTransformational Conception of Social ActivityEvolutionary ProcessesEconomic MethodologyTechnologySocial Structuresjournal article2013-10-13