SOCI 602 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Plants And Animals, Thumb, Ethnocentrism

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 602
• Professor: Jean- Francois An- Lan Wen

Document Summary

Biology does play a role in human behaviour ! Biological determinism - hard wired : takes away of element of choice and your pre will ! Think for the future , recollect from the past ! Adapt to our environment, depending on where we are , depending on what time we are in. depending on our exibility ! We are social creatures, we do not live in isolation ! Language and communication, we have the ability to speak. We have conscious thought, we can reason, have the libaialty to have thoughts ! Social beings - we live in groups & share information ! Darwin - the ideal of survival - he wrote about species ! Humans have always found a way to survive : being adaptable and exible ! : to see predators from other places ! Manipulating things, by making tools to survive. Eating meat will help ou brain capacity. By eating protein, so it will become larger and.