SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Termite, Waggle Dance, Science Daily
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Kilbourne: considers the influence of the media on child socialization. Heath: describes how parents remain very important socializers throughout the world. Nurture: our textbook and our readings emphasize how we are shaped by our social environment. Nature: a different view suggesting that are genes make us who they are. Standard view in biology, common in psychology. I will consider this nature vs. nurture debate. Although sociologists disagree on the extent of nature"s influence. Term coined by sir francis galton, a cousin of charles darwin and a brilliant thinker. Founding father of eugenics, laid out basic elements followed by nazis. Sociologists are very wary of the nature perspective. That said, humans are biological creatures, so sociologists cannot deny that our biology is important. Most sociologists differ from the strong nature view in two ways, however. (1) unifying nature: sociologists use biological arguments to explain commonalities, not differences. (2) interaction: sociologists consider how nature and nurture affect one another.
