Sociobiology departs perhaps the furthest from classical social evolutionism.

This became one of the important concepts in the theory of modernization in social evolutionism.

Kardashev's theory can be viewed as the expansion of some social theories, especially from social evolutionism.

Parsons contributed to the field of social evolutionism and neoevolutionism.

Thus progressivism became one of the basic ideas underlying the theory of social evolutionism.

Comte's law of three stages was one of the first theories of social evolutionism.

However, the more general "culture history" approach to archaeology that he began did replace social evolutionism as the dominant paradigm for much of the 20th century.

Inspired by the Enlightenment's ideal of progress, social evolutionism became a popular conception in the 19th century.

Classical functionalist theory is generally united by its tendency towards biological analogy and notions of social evolutionism.

Classical theories are defined by a tendency towards biological analogy and notions of social evolutionism: