SOC 603 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Darwinism, Sociobiology, Class Discrimination

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 603
• Professor: Pamela Sugiman

Document Summary

Biological determinism, psychoanalytic and developmental theories on gender. Theories of gender -what is sex and what is gender. Not only is gender a social construction, but also so is sex. All the different kinds of biological determinism also known as socio biology, or social. Darwinist approaches that was the dominant ideology on how people thought about the world and about everything in the world between the period of the 1880"s to the end of world war two, basically until the 1950"s. What we are going to use is scientific and biological psychological language to substantiate this and to frob it up. Socio biology, socio darwinism, biological determinism, evolutionary psychology all is order theories. They are all about perfect the way it is we love heteronormativity, sexism patriarchy, racism, classism, so we want to stay exactly the same. The reason is that the people who actually go act in these particular ways.