SOCI 1040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Zentner, Socalled, Amygdala
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Societal differences in gender - in class notes. The church and science: religion mandated the difference of men and women. Then biology began to prove superiority of men and inferiority of women. Evolutionary psychology: categorizes genders and puts them in orderly fashions. Women"s high reproductive cost - one egg to be fertilized at a time. The more often men spread their seed the more likely they will have reproductive success. Men rape women bc they cannot naturally reproduce (finding a woman to have sex with and. Spread their seed) so they resort to force. Any support of evolutionary psychology could be reversed to support the opposite claim. This is flawed: gay rape, raping young women, infanticile, unable to identify baby. Behavior is predetermined based on genetic codes written in our brains. Therefore, all women (from any region) prefer male traits - strong, economically sound, etc. And all men (from any region) prefer female traits - warm, home-like, etc.
