SOC 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sidesaddle, Type A And Type B Personality Theory, Biological Anthropology

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1200
• Professor: Daniel C.Albas

Document Summary

Last 2 chapters of the book: www. nelsonbrain. com code: back2school. Self-fulfilling prophecy: false definition, act on the basis of it, tend to become reality ex: bank rumoured to go bankrupt. In the end it did because of the false definition. ex: rumoured to be a short of toilet paper. Everyone bought it, and there was a shortage ex: if you hear someone doesn"t like you, you will not treat them well, causing them to not treat you well, and your false definition is going to happen. We are more motivated by negative things than positive things. The only way to stop it from happening is to know about the self-fulfilling prophecy and be able to control it. Anthropologists have emerged from the study of newly discovered tribal societies. Urbanization-most of the population is living in the urbanized parts of the cities. Physical anthropology ex: evolution from darwin is the major concept. Looking at the evidence to reconstruct the past.