AN101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Nationstates, Arson, Sefrou
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Social organization: patterning of human interdependence in a given society through the actions and decisions of it members. The search for the laws of social organization. Biological determinists look for biological processes operating deeply within human beings forcing them to act in some ways and forbidding them to act in others. Other thinkers explain similarities and diffs in social organization as adaptations to particular ecological conditions. Unilineal evolutionists (lewis henry morgan and karl marx) believed that laws of society are rooted in dynamics of history and work themselves out over time for each human group. E. g. adaptive flexibility of the human brain and body would be impossible if our behaviour were under rigid genetic control. European colonization demonstrated how most delicately balanced societal adaptation to a given environment can be totally disrupted, if not destroyed, when outsiders arrive with plans of their own and the power to enforce them.