ANTH 010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Inner Core, Reductionism, Essentialism

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Anthropology (ANTH)
• Course: ANTH 010
• Professor: gaddis

Document Summary

To explore the extent of this, we the westerns give essentialist answers. Our identity as individuals, and as groups, as well our claims of social connections rely on the ideas of an essentialized self individuals: who am i. Inner core, innate, natural, un changeable, and makes us who we are, and what makes us with others (who are similar) The nature of mankind can be defined using systematic exploration. Essence of who we are as human being. James watson: our fate is in our genes. The core of who we are as individuals and groups (who we are as a part of other people) is found in our genes. Natural similarities and differences that exist within human races. We can understand the natural workings of individuals. These things include sexual orientation, gender, personality, race, etc. These are the products of culture and society not a part of our essentialized self. We share similarities, but no two humans are identical.