SOCY 1016 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Fetus, White Supremacy, Human Behavior
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We can"t help it so why bother to change it. Critique - excuses that behavior and such ideas. Theory: god created man and woman for different purposes. Social darwinism: women must be protected from what men must endure. Saying women just can"t handle the same things and responsibilities that a man has. Voting would be too taxing on women. Lebon: women are closer to children and savages. Males and females develop different strategies to ensure reproduction. Men: produce many sperm; need to fertilize a great number of eggs. Women: produce one egg; more choosy about mating. Men who rape are fulfilling their genetic drive to reproduce. The essentialist perspective looks to nature to explain social behavior. Biological arguments for sex differences have historically tended to be politically conservative, suggesting the social arguments between men and women were the inevitable outcome of nature. No, it"s just that science is always a product of time and culture.
