SOC 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Biological Determinism, Order Theory, Sociobiology

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 103
• Professor: Kelly Train

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Sigmund freud one of the most famous biological determinants of all time. Argued that you are your biology, nothing about you is socially constructed. But first what is an instinct: something you are born knowing how to do, you know how to do it automatically, it is not socially constructed, crying, suckling. Infants and toddlers learn what to fear, have no sense of hot stove . You have to learn how to survive: mothering mother-child attachment (freud says that you know how to mother just because you have a uterus false) Concept of evolution, natural selection, survival of the fittest. Looked at how species survived or did not and what made them survive & adapt and evolve in environment. What allowed them to survive is the fact they are social beings (sociability), humans rely on others to help them survive. Walking on 2 legs gave you more advantage. Social and group event, joint hunting and sharing of meat.