SOC GEN 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Behavioural Sciences, Hypnosis, Hubris
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Objectives: where are we in history, how has biology developed over the last century, science in society, society in science, science as a social/cultural endeavor, society as increasingly biomedical/technical. Who was hg wells: working class ; one of the first generations to have access to scientific education (a, struggled against moral/class restraints of victorian england social mvmt, beginning/origin of eugenics, felt that artificial structures kept him down . What were the pressing questions of 1896 : malleability of flesh and mind, creativity of embryology (taking apart putting back together, not necessarily in, plasticity correct/original form) Rise of experimentation (social and scientific: modernism-, artistic/literary mvmt, contributed to rise of experimental science in labs, fueled by industrial revolution and imperialism. Artifice: human skill as opposed to natural order, ex: vivisection = type of artifice that involved surgical procedures while the, ex 2: parabiosis = sewing together two different animals/organisms subject is still alive and/or conscious i)
