SA 100W Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Family Values, Human Behaviour, Heredity
24 Mar 2016
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My own unique perceptual lens was forged in large part in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the heyday of anti-vietnam demonstrations, civil rights marches, and student protests. I was sympathetic to these causes, but my involvement in their activities was sporadic and largely peripheral. Try as i might, i couldn"t ind a way to connect my personal experience with the sweeping phrases and ringing generalities even while i found no reason to doubt their basic message. Instead, my energies had been devoted to trying to locate an inclusive perspective from the oferings of psychology, sociology, anthropology, and literature that i encountered in the university classroom. Where novels and poetry permitted a glimpse into the sensibilities of individuals, their musings scarcely seemed the stuf from which to fashion a personal code of ethics or a political plan of action. The apparent strengths of the social sciences proved to be their shortcomings as well.
