PSYC 3100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Standard Social Science Model, Social Fact, David Buss
16 Sep 2013
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Sssm (standard social science model) psychologists and evolutionary psychologists agree that humans worldwide share a similar psychology. Both also agree that human behaviour is variable. Where they differ is how to reconcile these two facts. Sssm psychologists attribute the diversity of human behaviour to cultural and environmental influences. Evolutionary psychologists se these explanations as incomplete at best and circular at worst. Emile durkheim has strongly influenced the social sciences. Unfortunately he founded the study of society a doubtful idea. Durkheim: thought society and the social forces that shape it were separate and independent from the forces that operate in other realms. For example, society had no basis in biology. Famous quote only social facts can explain social facts thus, societal facts explain societal facts. Durkheim s peculiar stance: many nonhuman animals are intensely social, they show consistent differences in their social arrangements, just as they differ in important adaptations. Selection is likely to have shaped social behaviour!
