SY101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Ethnocentrism, Manifest And Latent Functions And Dysfunctions, Mass Media
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Some people state that we should just accept the inherent biological differences between men and women because we live in a society where our biology affects our understanding of the world. It is not accurate to state that biological and sociological explanations confront one another as mutually exclusive and competing view points. Humans are both free willed and driven by culture: human biology does establish some general parameters for human development, but that social experiences are pivotal to understanding human behaviors. Looking at feral children (kids who were brought up with almost no human contact) suggests that our biological makeup sets time limits on our abilities to acquire language and make connections. The absence of social interaction at young stages impacts the social development in future years. The social development of the self, mind and emotions. At birth we have no idea that we are separate beings.