SOCI 3692 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Inbreeding, Altruistic Suicide, Social Forces
5 Oct 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
No living being can be happy or even exist unless his needs are sufficiently proportioned to his means. If his needs require more than can be granted, or even merely something of a different sort, they will be under continual friction and can only function painfully. Movements incapable of production without pain tend not to be reproduced. Unsatisfied tendencies atrophy, and as the impulse to live is merely the result of all. In the animal, this equilibrium is established with automatic spontaneity because the animal the rest, it is bound to weaken as the others relax. depends on purely material conditions. All the organism needs is that the supplies of substance and energy constantly employed in the vital process should be periodically renewed by equivalent quantities. In no society are they equally satisfied in the different stages of the social hierarchy. Yet human nature is substantially the same among all men, in its essential qualities.
