SOC 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Biological Determinism, Order Theory, Hard Wired

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 103
• Professor: Lock Rebecca

Document Summary

Movement: the eugenics movement, as we will explore, supported in both policy and practice the goal of eliminating so-called undesirable peoples from society. We will be looking at how biological determinism, as an order theory, was used to explain why certain people had unlimited access to resources and opportunities, while others had little or no access to resources. The eugenics movement sought to eliminate those considered. Inferior from the society: in order to explore biological determinism, we first need to look at the development of darwin"s theory of evolution. As well, it is necessary to first understand the development of evolutionary theory: what is an instinct, an instinct is something that you are born knowing how to do. Infants suckle when they are hungry, we all need to sleep, we all need to ingest food and water to and excrete waste to physically survive: beyond these needs, however, most of what we think of as being.