SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Gender Studies, Role Theory, Psych
13 May 2016
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If attraction was a genetic basis there would be less variation in it. Aggression: we see aggressive behaviour because perhaps we had a better chance of surviving. Ex: the role that women take over mother roles, they are more nurturing. On the opposite side of that, the male is more aggressive. Social scientific theories deal with aggregated and not individual behaviour. Their goal is to explain aggregate patterns of behaviour that are regular even though individuals within the aggregate vary over time. These theories try to understand the systems in which people operate. The elements of the systems are not individuals but variables. From the social psych perspectives, there is a lot more power in explaining the. Any characteristic or attribute that varies e. g. gender, age, income has to have multiple states. Which of the following is not a variable: celcius, weight, iq, speed of light (it is not a variable, this is known to stay the same, gpa.
