01:920:240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Blood Pressure, Kin Selection
18 Mar 2016
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Statistical: how many people are doing something so use: ^ use a bell curve graph: assumption: property of a group, developed in 19th century (with beginning of cities, critics: A mean/average cannot represent an actual person. People who are just off from normal are considered abnormal. Statistical norm for one subgroup cannot apply to larger group: ex. Cultural/normative: culture shared beliefs, customs, behaviors, etc. Belongs in a certain context (contextual specific) This is nurture, not nature: tells us how to behave, normal is arbitrary. Emphasis n differences (how one culture differs from another) Learned: assumption: changeable across time and space, critics: Norms are usually set by the powerful/majority in the group. Some norms never change/barely (driving side of the road, keyboard, etc. ) Reproduction and survival everything that contributes to these is seemed normal (so like homosexuality would be abnormal here: kin selection. You"re more likely to save your brother than a stranger (help people genetically related to us)
