SOC101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Social Inequality, Kuznets Curve, Polytheism
17 Apr 2013
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Personalities: an individual"s relatively stable pattern of behaviors and feelings. 2 basic approaches to understand personality: biological approach, environmental approach. Nature vs. nurture: the debate between whether biological forces or environment define the person we become. Nature says actions and feelings are biological. Nurture says we are a product of socialization. Socialization: the lifelong process by which we learn our culture, develop our personalities and become functioning members of society. Social interaction: the ways in which people interact in social settings. Suggests that most of our behavior is determined by our genetic makeup. Socio-biology: a science that uses evolutionary theory and genetic inheritance to examine the biological roots of social behavior. Evolutionary psychology: a relabeled form of socio-biology that argues that darwinian inheritance can explain contemporary human behavior. Structure of the brain and emotions and behavior it inspires does not prohibit the mind from transcending biology. Sociologists acknowledge that some genetic linkages exist and influence human behavior.
