Sociobiology

My guttural reaction to reading the Fay and Moon paper was mild annoyance, particularly at the suggestion “if the humanists fail to provide an account of social theories, we fare little better at the hands of the naturalists.” (219) Intentionality, according to Fay and Moon, is the pinch point as far as the naturalist is concerned. There is an underlying assumption for both that intentionality is not something which can be accounted for within an naturalist perspective, “the social sciences are needed

Chapter one is about ethics. It is defined as what is right and wrong. By being able to follow guidelines it can make for a good life (pg.3) Ethics can be divided into two forms called theoretical and narrative. Normative ethics affects are lives at the personal and global levels. Normative ethics gives us rea world experience to apply to everyday life (pg.8) Theoretical ethics also called metaethics, is dealing with the meaning and foundations of someone’s morals (pg. 8)., . Meteahical theories

The field of criminology has been slow to give credit to biological theories of deviant behavior. Criminology was mainly in the field of the social science approach to crime as developed in sociology, it was pure sociology without any biology or psychology. One reason for this is because biological theories the link between biology and crime is not clear and biology on behavior of any kind is more often the result of an interaction among genetic, hormonal and other biological features of an individual

The video Zeitgeist: Moving Forward 2011 provides relevant topics to our content in chapter two. One of the concepts that was discussed in both the video and the textbook is the view that genes influence human behavior. This view comes from the sociobiology, which is the biological study of human and animal behaviors in life. People who made the claim that genes strongly influence human behavior are called sociobiologists. In both the textbook and the movie, they both explain why this view is not

Within the world of primates, the family Hominidae includes the primates known as the great apes. These primates, are then broken down into two subfamilies. One subfamily contains the primates chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and humans, while the other subfamily, Ponginae, only contains the species Pongo, commonly known as the orangutan. Orangutans, although closely related to the other great apes, represent a lot of extremes in biological parameters (Campbell, C. J., 2011). One of the most drastic

humans are genetically programmed to be both rational self-interested agents and to be altruistic agents who build societies, and the "cohesive" society is due to a delicate balance between the two genetic pressures. This is where Turchin gets into sociobiology, showing that cultural evolution works faster than genetic

In the 20th and 21st century, women have been able to make economic and political advancements. But, because of institutional and social sexism, women have limited choices in their financial independence and love lives. This inequality is the most notable within the institution of marriage. There is a disparity between men and women at the beginning of the marriage, and an even larger gap when couples divorce. Women bear the brunt and face an immense monetary detriment after a marriage. This is

Micheal Shermer similarly outlined the emphasis Neo-Darwinism placed on constant reiteration of the importance of Darwin 's “idea”, defined as a singular, revolutionary entity within the history of science that was first exclusively formed in 1837 and confirmed by others1 in the vein of Thomas S. Kuhn2 (as opposed to the very gradual process of disciplinary development in evolutionary science described in nuance by Ruse, albeit with the same revolutionary interpretation present3). Coyne likewise

Throughout many years, people have protested and rioted against many things such as gay rights and immigration. To many people, this is considered what is called hate speech. Hate speech is speech that attacks people based on race, sexual orientation, gender, or any other personal attributes. For many years, people have had debates about if hate speech should or should not be protected by the First Amendment. This debate could cause the leaders of the United States to form new laws. Also, whether

The word ‘xenophobia’ has originated from the Greek terms ‘xenos’ means foreign and ‘phobos’ means fear, which basically means a fear of foreign, foreigners . According to the Webster’s Dictionary the term is described as, “the fear and hatred of strangers and foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign”. Contact with foreigners from outside and strangers within has accelerated with the advent of the modern age, and also a substantial composition developed in Europe addresses this realism