SOC 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Biological Determinism, Social Darwinism, Bipedalism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 103
• Professor: Kelly Train

Document Summary

Something that you are born knowing how to do. Not a skill and not based on something you had to work on. Some instincts, if you don"t use them right away, you lose them. No such thing as a survival instinct, motherly instinct, sexual instinct: darwinism. In 1861, darwin published origin of the species: concept of evolution and natural selection. Survival of the fittest: concept - mutations and how species are able to survive for millions of years, able to adapt to environmental surroundings, and those who could not became extinct. Darwin"s theory: did not start with predetermined outcome, only interested in looking at how species survived/did not survive and what made them survive/did not survive: the human package, bipedalism and toolmaking. What allows human to survive is that humans start to develop traits through the evolutionary phase. Social event: in order to get meat you had to catch it and kill it and could not do it alone.