As Social Beings, The Innate, Evolutionary Instinct Of

“Civilization and Its Discontents” is a book written by Sigmund Freud in 1929 (originally titled “Das Unbehagen in der Kultur” or The Uneasiness in Culture.) This is considered to be one of Freud’s most important and widely read works. In this book, Freud explains his perspective by enumerating what he sees as fundamental tensions between civilization and the individual. He asserts that this tension stems from the individual’s quest for freedom and non-conformity and civilization’s quest for uniformity and instinctual repression. Most of humankind’s primitive instincts are clearly destructive to the health and well-being of a human community (such as the desire to kill.) As a direct result, civilization creates laws designed to prohibit

The author, Logan Feys in his article, ¨The Sociology of Leopard Man¨, discusses the topic of society and being a nonconformist. He claims that people should be psychologically free and strong enough to live independently, leaving society and entering society on their own terms. He supports his claim by first comparing abnormal people and ¨normal¨ people. For example, in the article he states, “Plenty of weird people do have serious mental problems. But so do plenty of ¨normal¨ people.¨ (Feys 1). He then goes on to explain the dangers of conforming to society. ¨Conformity can be seen as the world's most common but dangerous psychological disorder. Living in society, we are under constant pressure to surrender our individuality to the will of

There is a machine that take people, and makes them into things. It takes passion, creativity and individuality, and strips it away leaving not even a person but thing embraces monotony and conformity. Every person who embraces it, simply becomes a replaceable clogs to eventually be thrown away. They becomes destin for a meaningless life devoid of purpose.This disastrous machine is society. These views are the only way one can live life to the fullest through the views of nonconformity and self reliance while being willing to accept the consequences it entails

Browning, in his book Ordinary men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the final solution in Poland, most of the interviewees seem to have a mindset that the killings were wrong but they needed to follow orders. Their attitude was that it was necessary to carry out the orders even though the orders may not have seemed morally or ethically right. The reason the battalion obeyed the orders is because it came from the authorities who had instilled the fear of repercussions in the Reserves and took advantage of the men’s obedience to authority. A quote from Trapp sums up the mindset perfectly when he said, “man… such jobs don’t suit me but orders are orders.” If not out of obedience then what else motivated the men to carry out the orders which led to them becoming mass murderers?

Conformity, it’s something everyone deals with, even if they do not realize it. Although, what happens when conformity takes control over everything? What if the world was stripped of individuality, no citizen has any rights to hold on to, while not being able to think for one’s self. That is an image what it would be like if everyone in the world were to conform to a restricting society. Just think of all of the advances in technology the human race has come up with in the last ten years alone. None of that would have been possible in a society where no one can go above another person's IQ level. This is the world the characters in Ayn Rand’s novella Anthem live in. The reasons that total conformity is dangerous is because individuality is not possible, no family history, and advancement would not be possible.

As Browning says, “At Lomazy following orders reinforced the natural tendency to conform to the behavior of one’s comrades. This was much easier to bear than the situation at Jozefow…” (Browning, chapter 9, page 87). This is where the change began to happen for the men of the 101st. Men who slipped away at Jozefow could not do the same at Lomazy and through this baptism by fire they grew more accustomed to the sights, sounds, and smells of these massacres.

It is now that Browning goes in-depth on the massacre that occurred in Jozefow. Of the perpetrators, Browning mentions that many were middle-aged policemen who were given a choice of whether or not they wanted to take part in killing the Jewish population in this area. The major who offered a reprieve from being involved in the slaughter was Major Trapp, of the 500 men who would be present, only a mere dozen would accept his offer. Afterwards, the slaughter began with one soldier stating “I shot the child that belonged to her, because I reasoned with myself that after all without its mother the child could not live any longer; so to speak, soothing to my conscience to release children unable to live without their mothers. (Browning 73)”

The author exemplifies the ways that disobedience helps the society and its contribution to furthering the human race but notes on the fact that blind obedience may eventually account for the end of civilization.

The members of the Reserve Police Battalion 101 were influenced and conditioned in a general way and filled in particular with a sense of their own superiority and racial relationship. The aspect of Jewish inferiority, peer pressure and sense of duty therefore turned many of the police battalion into murderers. Browning suggests that given the same or similar circumstances, a similar number of ordinary men would experience the same results.

"There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are faced to deal with" (William Halsey). The same can be said about volatile men. This is the quote Christopher R. Browning thought of when he named this book. The men of the 101st battalion were rarely faced with decisions. Even if it had been proposed by Trapp the morning of Jozefow that "any of the older men who did not feel up to the task that lay before them could step out" (Browning, chapter 7, pg. 57), he didn't actually allow them any time to truly think about it. He brought it up moments before they were about to go out to the slaughter. They were blind-sided and the men who didn't want to risk the future of their jobs as policemen or the men

Furthermore, since the government can artificially create society’s status quo, nonconformists are quite easily isolated and have no capacity to gain support since they are viewed as radical outsiders. For example, the World Controllers in Brave New World take advantage of the principle that “If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely” (Huxley 128) which stems from the human desire to belong. Individuals who question the practices established by the government will generally still indulge in them so long as it means avoiding social rejection. This precedent is highlighted by the continuous actions of Bernard Marx, another misfit individual in Brave New World, to avoid being left out in social situations despite lacking the common enthusiasm of his peers: “Feeling that it was time for him to do something. Bernard also jumped up and shouted: “I hear him; He’s coming.”

Everyday people use social cognition as a tool to help them thrive in social world. There are many important aspects of social cognition that are helpful to us in making decisions and help us to interpret the world around us. An important aspect that is linked to social cognition is that of thought suppression. Thought suppression is when a person tries to force particular thoughts, memories or feelings out of their minds that may be unpleasant or may cause a great deal of stress for the individual. Many people are unaware how often we use thought suppression in our daily lives, but the truth is we use it in almost every aspect of our day.

In most cases sexual difference are with in species may intersexual or intrasexual, but according to Darwin there are other ways sexual difference can occur in a species. Within the species sexual difference can based on the genetics and the their genotypes. The species sexual difference can be based on what traits are being expressed. Take for instance the sex chromosomes where males posses the XY chromosome and females posses the ZY chromosome. When evaluating the chromosome in mammals, males have a penis to ejaculate sperm and females have mammary glands to produce milk for the young.

A famous philosopher named Aristotle once said, "He who is unable to live in a society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god" (Moncur ). Ever since the first humans, people have sought to live and grow where other people are. This organization of people living together as a community is called a society. For the members of it, society furnishes protection, continuity, security and identity. Without a society to be a part of, man is nothing. Therefore, if a man comes into conflict with his society, he must either accept these differences or be destroyed. This nightmare comes to life in Chinua Achebe 's novel Things Fall Apart, when the main character, Okonkwo, clashes with his society 's

Do you ever get that uncomfortable feeling when you’re talking with people? Do you ever feel like you would much rather be doing something else when you’re socializing? Or, maybe you have a different approach to talking with people. Perhaps you actively try to talk with people. Maybe you actually enjoy socializing with people. There is nothing wrong with either, but there is an obvious difference between the two. The applicable terms here are introvert and extrovert, to put it broadly. Introverts tend to shy away from the limelight, while extroverts embrace it, at least for physical socialization as pertinent to the time being. Okay, so we can generally split ourselves between these two groups. But what causes this split in humans? That is to say, what is making some of us flourish in socialization, and others uncomfortable at the sound of it? Like many human traits, there are many possible causes and factors behind the differences in socialization among humans. Past experiences is a common one, for example. People who were – or are, for that matter – bullied are less likely to enjoy socializing, and will likely be less capable in the field of such. Those who are treated akin to kings through socializing, however, will socialize as if it were nobody’s business, and will be good at it, with social confidence coming second nature to these people. Self-esteem ties into this as well. Those who view poorly of themselves will more than likely not enjoy socializing,