SOCA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: W. E. B. Du Bois, Konrad Lorenz, Sociobiology
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To fully understand what it means to be human is to appreciate that we are the only organisms that can think. Chapter 6: socialization and social interaction about thinking. Personality: a(cid:374) i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual"s relati(cid:448)el(cid:455) sta(cid:271)le patter(cid:374) of behaviours and feelings. There are two basic approach to understanding how we develop our personalities: biological (nature, environmental approach (nurture, nature versus nurture: the debate between whether biological forces or environment define the person we become. The nature side of the debate holds that our actions and feelings stem from our biological roots. Most of our behaviour is determined by our genetic makeup. Wilso(cid:374)"s (cid:271)ook applies the pri(cid:374)(cid:272)iples of dar(cid:449)i(cid:374)ia(cid:374) i(cid:374)herita(cid:374)(cid:272)e to sho(cid:449) ho(cid:449) hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iours are selected for and passed on from one generation to the next. Sociobiologists argue that for example the difference in women and men are the result of millions of years of natural selection. Evolutionary psychology (another name for sociobiology): a relabelled form of sociobiology that argues that.
