SOC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Social Forces, Thumb, Social Darwinism
12 Nov 2015
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Wednesday, october 21 (*all of the following notes are supplementary to the rudimentary notes from d2l. Some notes reflect an area of the notes that required us to fill in the blanks. I"ve tried to mark them appropriately, but be sure to compare these to your d2l notes and the textbooks. Biology and culture relationship of our biology as homosapiens and our human culture: what we"re born with and how we structure our world. Variability within a species due to chance genetic mutation: 2. Population of any given species tends to increase beyond its means of subsistence: 3. Struggle for existence within and between species: 4. Social darwinism ignores social forces: such as: race, class, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, etc share order with great apes (gorillas, chimps, orangutans, primates: tree dwellers. Structural similarities increased brain capacities: dominance of vision over smell increased infant dependency complex, long lasting social groups.
