SOCECOL E8 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Jared Diamond, Niall Ferguson, Classic Maya Collapse

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Social Ecology
• Course: SOCECOL E8
• Professor: John M.Whiteley

Document Summary

He identifies science as the acquisition of reliable knowledgr about the world. He considers science is misrepresented as the body of knowledge acquired by performing replicated controlled experiments in the laboratory. By saying ranging from molecular genetics, neurosocience, and evolutionary biology to archaeology, ecology, social psychology, and history. He argues that the biggest threat to the future of the west is ourselves cowardice, drawn from ignorance, even stupidity about our past. He is a professor, and like diamond, a recipient of the puliter prize. We have created a star wars civilization, with stone age emotions, medieval institutions, and god life technology. We are terribly confused by the mere fact of our existence, and a danger to ourselves and to the rest of life. The first is why advanced social life exist at all, and has occurred so rarely in the history of life. The second is the identity of the driving forces that brought it into the existence.