SOCI 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Solitary Confinement, Waggle Dance, Worker Bee
19 Apr 2016
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Nurture: our textbook and our readings emphasize how we are shaped by our social. Sociology is focused on nurture o o o. Nurture: social environment is shaping who we are, learn through relationships, how we"re supposed to act, standard sociological view. Nature: a different view suggesting that our genes make us who we are o o. More accepting in this view in psychology and neuroscience. Founding father of eugenics, laid out basic elements followed by nazis. Term coined by sir francis galton, a cousin of charles darwin and a brilliant thinker o o. Explains differences between upper and lower class: nature, in our genes, why they do. Racial categories of people: there is a relationship between iq test scores: genetic better in education and jobs difference was the answer. African americans were related to social status: education of parents, does not control for one"s socio-economic background. Studies found one"s neighbourhood is a stronger predictor of doing well in school.
