SOC102H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Pierre Bourdieu, Sociobiology
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Socialization: the process of learning culture and becoming aware of yourself as you interact with others. The characteristics of members of each species vary widely. Species members with more adaptive characteristics are more likely to survive until reproduction. Therefore, the species characteristics that endure are those that increase the survival chances of the species. A sociobiologist will try to find an answer based on the genetics of it the logic of it. Identify a supposedly universal form of human behaviour. Make up a story about why this behaviour increases survival chance. Assert that the behaviour in question cannot be changed. By far institutions have a powerful affect about how people carry their sex lives. Something like eating is mediated by society/culture in a biological sense when there is a need, the body will try to satisfy it. In a sociological sense, for the hunger to turn into eating, it will go into the social field before an outcome is achieved.
