SOC 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cesare Lombroso, Pessimism, Social Darwinism
22 Jan 2016
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Organs: animalistic part of the brain shows when we participate in violent behaviours. Killing, stabbing, cutting, scratching : exist in all/larger in males, criminals. Biology does not affiliate with free will: humans have free will, scientists believe that free will is an illusion. We are creatures of conditioning: if it is natural what about free will and external social sources. Not sure why some people are born with it and some people aren"t. Charles darwin: descent with modification through natural selection, nature selects traits useful survival and reproduction competition/struggle for existence. Evolution looks at all forms of life: shows that things have been changing for 6 billion years, we all share the same basic building blocks of life with each other, we are more violent. Prior to us, there were other types of humans and we killed them of. Women are choosey, they do not settle with the first mate to come around. Meant to cut through the surrounding noise.
