SOC101 Lecture Notes - Reality Television, Cultural Capital, Total Institution
12 Mar 2013
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January 30, 2013: nature vs. nurture, the biological approach (nature) Biological capability leads to evolved desire: ex. men"s ability to impregnate multiple women leads to desire to have multiple sexual partners, preference given to biologically perfect" women. Behavioural differences based on socialization and interaction. Only organism that can think about thinking. Personality: individuals relatively stable pattern of behaviours and feelings. Nature vs. nurture: the debate between whether biological forces or environmental define the person we become. Socialization: the lifelong process by which we learn our culture, develop our personalities, and become functioning members of society. Social interaction: the ways in which people interact in social settings, recognizing each person"s subjective experiences and/or intentions. Sociologists disregard the nature argument in its entirety: athletic and ability and intellectual capability attributed in part to biology. Research: men and women have different brain structures influencing their response to the world.
