SOC 103 Lecture Notes - Biological Determinism, Social Darwinism, Order Theory
30 Jun 2012
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Sigmend freud one of the most famous biological determinants of all time. Argued that you are your biology, nothing about you is socially constructed. It is not socially constructed: something you are born knowing how to do, you know how to do it automatically, crying, suckling. What is not an instinct: survival is not an instinct. 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, sexual instinct, the process of evolution. These are all things that come up in social darwinism. Gave us an edge of others bipedalism allowed up to see greater distances, see our prey/predators. Tool making facilitated hunting, allowed to make baskets etc. to carry food: meat eating. Social survival meant you had to do it with other people, had to hunt together: systems of symbolization.
