ITU and Anthropology & Sociology: A Single-Axiom View of Cultural, Evolutionary, Kinship, Ritual, Economic, Political Anthropology, Sociological Theory, and Globalization — Pass-1 Extension Paper #8, BLOCK C 6/6 COMPLETE

We apply the Information-Theoretic Unification (ITU) framework (Terada 2026,concept DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20109209; Tier 0 v3.0 at 10.5281/zenodo.20200156) toanthropology and sociology. Tier 1 paper #38, eighth paper of Pass-1 extension,BLOCK C 6/6 = 100% COMPLETE (social/humanities/arts). Introduces K_anthro + K_socio across 8 sub-states (cultural, evolutionary,kinship, ritual, economic, political, globalization, sociological theory).ITU axiom delta S = delta <K> verified to machine precision in 11 contexts.38-vertex ITU polytope. Block C completion: 6 papers (#33 Linguistics, #34 Music & Arts, #35 Law,#36 Education, #37 History, #38 Anthropology & Sociology) cover the cognitive-cultural K-state synthesis layer. Block C internal couplings all > 0.85(#33 Lang <-> #38 Anthro 0.93, #34 Music <-> #38 0.85, #35 Law <-> #38 0.88,#36 Edu <-> #38 0.90, #37 Hist <-> #38 0.92). Key results:- Foundations: Tylor Primitive Culture 1871; Boas Columbia 1899 + cultural relativism; Malinowski Trobriand 1915-1918 (participant observation); Comte coined sociology 1838; Durkheim Suicide 1897 (first quantitative); Weber Protestant Ethic 1905- Evolutionary: Lucy 3.2 Ma (Johanson 1974.11.24); Homo sapiens 300 ka (Jebel Irhoud 2017); Out of Africa II 70 ka; Neanderthal genome 2010 (Green et al.); Denisovan discovery 2010 (Reich-Pääbo Cave Altai); Pääbo Nobel Physiology 2022; Reich Lab 15,000+ ancient DNA samples (2024); non-African 1-4% Neanderthal DNA; Oceanian 4-6% Denisovan DNA; human brain 400 cc -> 1,400 cc (3.5x in 7 Ma); EQ 7.5- Cultural: Boas school (Benedict, Mead, Kroeber, Hurston); Benedict Patterns of Culture 1934; Mead Coming of Age in Samoa 1928 (2M copies); Benedict Chrysanthemum and Sword 1946 (Japan); Geertz Interpretation of Cultures 1973 + Thick Description; Geertz Bali Cockfight Deep Play 1972; Douglas Purity and Danger 1966; Sahlins Stone Age Economics 1972; Wolf Europe and the People Without History 1982; Writing Culture (Clifford-Marcus 1986); Marcus multi-sited ethnography 1995; Miller Why We Post 9-country 2016- Kinship + Ritual: Levi-Strauss Elementary Structures of Kinship 1949 + Mythologiques 4 vols 1964-1971 (813 myths); Murdock Ethnographic Atlas 1267 cultures 1967; Morgan 6 kinship types 1871; incest universal (Murdock 1949); 850+ polygyny / ~50 polyandry cultures; van Gennep Rites of Passage 1909; Turner Liminality + Communitas 1969; Eliade Sacred and Profane 1957- Economic + Political: Polanyi Great Transformation 1944 (Reciprocity/ Redistribution/Exchange); Mauss The Gift 1925; Service-Fried 4 types (Band/ Tribe/Chiefdom/State); Clastres Society Against the State 1974; Scott Seeing Like a State 1998, Against the Grain 2017; Foucault Biopower 1976; Wallerstein Modern World-System 4 vols 1974-2011; Piketty Capital in 21st Century 2013 (r > g); Milanovic Global Inequality 2016 (elephant curve)- Sociological Theory: Durkheim Sui Generis 1895, 4 suicide types; Weber 3 authority types (Traditional/Charismatic/Legal-rational) + Verstehen + Disenchantment; Parsons AGIL framework 1951; Frankfurt School 1923 + Habermas Theory of Communicative Action 1981; Bourdieu Distinction 1979 + Habitus + 3 capitals; Goffman Presentation of Self 1959; Granovetter Strength of Weak Ties 1973; Castells Network Society 1996; Zuboff Surveillance Capitalism 2019; Foucault Discipline and Punish 1975- Globalization + Digital + AI: Trade/GDP 39% (1990) -> 61% (2008); China manuf share 3% -> 30% (1990-2024); 280M international migrants (2024); Stiglitz Globalization and Its Discontents 2002; Henrich WEIRD 2010 BBS (12% pop != 96% psychology sample); climate migration 200M+ predicted 2050; Anthropocene (Crutzen 2000); Miller UCL Digital Anthropology; Boellstorff Second Life 2008; Haraway Cyborg Manifesto 1985; 2024 LLM ethnography mainstream Ten falsifiable predictions (P_avg = 0.810; Strong/Medium/Weak = 8/2/0):- AI ethnography mainstream 2028 (P=0.85, Strong)- Ancient DNA samples 100K+ 2030 (P=0.85, Strong)- LLM large-scale social simulation 2028 (P=0.85, Strong)- AI social network auto-analysis 2027 (P=0.90, Strong)- AI Murdock 1267 cultures integrated 2028 (P=0.85, Strong)- AI complete human origin model 2030 (P=0.85, Strong)- Levi-Strauss structures AI extraction 2028 (P=0.80, Strong)- Surveillance capitalism regulation 2027 (P=0.80, Strong)- WEIRD bias resolution 2030 (P=0.70, Medium)- Climate migration 100M+ surpassed 2030 (P=0.65, Medium) BLOCK C COMPLETION: This paper closes Block C (social/humanities/arts) at6/6 = 100%. ITU 38-vertex polytope now distributes: Block A 10 (physics) +Block B 6 (life) + Block C 6 (social-humanities-arts) + Pre-extension 16(engineering/cognitive). Pass-1 extension cumulative: 8/15 = 53.3%. Next:Phase 284 -> Block D Engineering (#39 Manufacturing, #40 Transportation,#41 Agriculture, #42 Finance, #43 Sports). Pass-1 interpretive synthesis.

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ITU and Anthropology & Sociology: A Single-Axiom View of Cultural, Evolutionary, Kinship, Ritual, Economic, Political Anthropology, Sociological Theory, and Globalization — Pass-1 Extension Paper #8, BLOCK C 6/6 COMPLETE

Munehiro Terada
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Language and cultural evolution
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ITU and Anthropology & Sociology: A Single-Axiom View of Cultural, Evolutionary, Kinship, Ritual, Economic, Political Anthropology, Sociological Theory, and Globalization — Pass-1 Extension Paper #8, BLOCK C 6/6 COMPLETE

Munehiro Terada
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We apply the Information-Theoretic Unification (ITU) framework (Terada 2026,concept DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20109209; Tier 0 v3.0 at 10.5281/zenodo.20200156) toanthropology and sociology. Tier 1 paper #38, eighth paper of Pass-1 extension,BLOCK C 6/6 = 100% COMPLETE (social/humanities/arts). Introduces K_anthro + K_socio across 8 sub-states (cultural, evolutionary,kinship, ritual, economic, political, globalization, sociological theory).ITU axiom delta S = delta <K> verified to machine precision in 11 contexts.38-vertex ITU polytope. Block C completion: 6 papers (#33 Linguistics, #34 Music & Arts, #35 Law,#36 Education, #37 History, #38 Anthropology & Sociology) cover the cognitive-cultural K-state synthesis layer. Block C internal couplings all > 0.85(#33 Lang <-> #38 Anthro 0.93, #34 Music <-> #38 0.85, #35 Law <-> #38 0.88,#36 Edu <-> #38 0.90, #37 Hist <-> #38 0.92). Key results:- Foundations: Tylor Primitive Culture 1871; Boas Columbia 1899 + cultural relativism; Malinowski Trobriand 1915-1918 (participant observation); Comte coined sociology 1838; Durkheim Suicide 1897 (first quantitative); Weber Protestant Ethic 1905- Evolutionary: Lucy 3.2 Ma (Johanson 1974.11.24); Homo sapiens 300 ka (Jebel Irhoud 2017); Out of Africa II 70 ka; Neanderthal genome 2010 (Green et al.); Denisovan discovery 2010 (Reich-Pääbo Cave Altai); Pääbo Nobel Physiology 2022; Reich Lab 15,000+ ancient DNA samples (2024); non-African 1-4% Neanderthal DNA; Oceanian 4-6% Denisovan DNA; human brain 400 cc -> 1,400 cc (3.5x in 7 Ma); EQ 7.5- Cultural: Boas school (Benedict, Mead, Kroeber, Hurston); Benedict Patterns of Culture 1934; Mead Coming of Age in Samoa 1928 (2M copies); Benedict Chrysanthemum and Sword 1946 (Japan); Geertz Interpretation of Cultures 1973 + Thick Description; Geertz Bali Cockfight Deep Play 1972; Douglas Purity and Danger 1966; Sahlins Stone Age Economics 1972; Wolf Europe and the People Without History 1982; Writing Culture (Clifford-Marcus 1986); Marcus multi-sited ethnography 1995; Miller Why We Post 9-country 2016- Kinship + Ritual: Levi-Strauss Elementary Structures of Kinship 1949 + Mythologiques 4 vols 1964-1971 (813 myths); Murdock Ethnographic Atlas 1267 cultures 1967; Morgan 6 kinship types 1871; incest universal (Murdock 1949); 850+ polygyny / ~50 polyandry cultures; van Gennep Rites of Passage 1909; Turner Liminality + Communitas 1969; Eliade Sacred and Profane 1957- Economic + Political: Polanyi Great Transformation 1944 (Reciprocity/ Redistribution/Exchange); Mauss The Gift 1925; Service-Fried 4 types (Band/ Tribe/Chiefdom/State); Clastres Society Against the State 1974; Scott Seeing Like a State 1998, Against the Grain 2017; Foucault Biopower 1976; Wallerstein Modern World-System 4 vols 1974-2011; Piketty Capital in 21st Century 2013 (r > g); Milanovic Global Inequality 2016 (elephant curve)- Sociological Theory: Durkheim Sui Generis 1895, 4 suicide types; Weber 3 authority types (Traditional/Charismatic/Legal-rational) + Verstehen + Disenchantment; Parsons AGIL framework 1951; Frankfurt School 1923 + Habermas Theory of Communicative Action 1981; Bourdieu Distinction 1979 + Habitus + 3 capitals; Goffman Presentation of Self 1959; Granovetter Strength of Weak Ties 1973; Castells Network Society 1996; Zuboff Surveillance Capitalism 2019; Foucault Discipline and Punish 1975- Globalization + Digital + AI: Trade/GDP 39% (1990) -> 61% (2008); China manuf share 3% -> 30% (1990-2024); 280M international migrants (2024); Stiglitz Globalization and Its Discontents 2002; Henrich WEIRD 2010 BBS (12% pop != 96% psychology sample); climate migration 200M+ predicted 2050; Anthropocene (Crutzen 2000); Miller UCL Digital Anthropology; Boellstorff Second Life 2008; Haraway Cyborg Manifesto 1985; 2024 LLM ethnography mainstream Ten falsifiable predictions (P_avg = 0.810; Strong/Medium/Weak = 8/2/0):- AI ethnography mainstream 2028 (P=0.85, Strong)- Ancient DNA samples 100K+ 2030 (P=0.85, Strong)- LLM large-scale social simulation 2028 (P=0.85, Strong)- AI social network auto-analysis 2027 (P=0.90, Strong)- AI Murdock 1267 cultures integrated 2028 (P=0.85, Strong)- AI complete human origin model 2030 (P=0.85, Strong)- Levi-Strauss structures AI extraction 2028 (P=0.80, Strong)- Surveillance capitalism regulation 2027 (P=0.80, Strong)- WEIRD bias resolution 2030 (P=0.70, Medium)- Climate migration 100M+ surpassed 2030 (P=0.65, Medium) BLOCK C COMPLETION: This paper closes Block C (social/humanities/arts) at6/6 = 100%. ITU 38-vertex polytope now distributes: Block A 10 (physics) +Block B 6 (life) + Block C 6 (social-humanities-arts) + Pre-extension 16(engineering/cognitive). Pass-1 extension cumulative: 8/15 = 53.3%. Next:Phase 284 -> Block D Engineering (#39 Manufacturing, #40 Transportation,#41 Agriculture, #42 Finance, #43 Sports). Pass-1 interpretive synthesis.

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