SOCI 138 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Behavior Genetics Association, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Behavioural Genetics
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Week 3 wrap-up and discussion: genetics, eugenics, and geneticization today. Centralized program where you"re coercing people into not reproducing. The legacy of eugenics shapes debates around genetics to this day. A key dogma of modern scientific racism. Syllogism: an argument where the conclusion follows the premises. Black people tend to score lower than people who identify with other racial categories on intelligence quotient or iq tests. Therefore, black people are genetically predisposed to lower intelligence than people from other groups. (and therefore racial inequalities are simply the inevitable result of biology So we really shouldn"t worry about them too much) The study of genetic and environmental influences on behavior. E. g. aggression, sociality, intelligence, and other cognitive abilities, psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia, adhd, etc. Highly interdisciplinary, encompassing researchers from a wide range of fields in. It is also the area of genetics research that is most easily tied to early 20th century genetics and beyond eugenics.
