SA 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Eugenics, Determinism, Homeschooling

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 150
• Professor: Suzanna Crage

Document Summary

Eugenics we should in some way be doing selection with people who have preferred genes. Controlled mating sterilize people who are mentally disabled. Nazis in germany put them away. Hard social determinism give me a child from a young age and i will turn him/her into anything. The nature argument assumes that we stop evolving. However, we don"t we continue to evolve through socialization. How we learn who we are, our personal identity, what"s expected of us and how to behave according to expectations (i. e. turn norms into codes) We can"t be separated from each other and those around us or the historical and social circumstances we live in. World value survey information over time for various countries and allows for comparison. In the states a lot of research has been done on white vs. black families: teaching children about the police.