Social Psychology
... along not only by having children but also by ensuring that their genetic relatives have children. • Because a person’s blood relatives share some of his or her genes, the more that person ensures their survival, the greater the chance that his or her genes will flourish in future generations. • Thu ...
... along not only by having children but also by ensuring that their genetic relatives have children. • Because a person’s blood relatives share some of his or her genes, the more that person ensures their survival, the greater the chance that his or her genes will flourish in future generations. • Thu ...
15. The Contemporary Anthropological Moment (1)
... • In sum: postmodernism has raised some serious and important questions about the ways in which anthropologists go about their work. There is no question that it has had a huge impact on anthropological writing and the degree to which anthropologists are concerned about representing those whom they ...
... • In sum: postmodernism has raised some serious and important questions about the ways in which anthropologists go about their work. There is no question that it has had a huge impact on anthropological writing and the degree to which anthropologists are concerned about representing those whom they ...
Hindu Paradigm of Evolution
... science, accepted as one of the most reliably established of all facts and theories of science, based on evidence not just from biological sciences, but also from anthropology, psychology, astrophysics, chemistry, geology, physics, mathematics, and other scientific disciplines, as well as behavioral ...
... science, accepted as one of the most reliably established of all facts and theories of science, based on evidence not just from biological sciences, but also from anthropology, psychology, astrophysics, chemistry, geology, physics, mathematics, and other scientific disciplines, as well as behavioral ...
The Theory of Evolution: Of What Value to Psychology?
... not only to other men but to the humblest of living creatures, which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system—still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. (Darwin, 1871/1898, p. 634) Few psychologists have trouble with the argument that the t ...
... not only to other men but to the humblest of living creatures, which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system—still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. (Darwin, 1871/1898, p. 634) Few psychologists have trouble with the argument that the t ...
Word
... anthropologists have become more attentive to their own earlier neglect of how people live not only (and never simply) within a single cultural community but travel among them. Put differently, cultural communities themselves are not simple collectivities of shared beliefs and practices. They are al ...
... anthropologists have become more attentive to their own earlier neglect of how people live not only (and never simply) within a single cultural community but travel among them. Put differently, cultural communities themselves are not simple collectivities of shared beliefs and practices. They are al ...
What is the Eros Effect?
... cohesion and order, an overriding concern which seriously handicapped the scientific understanding of conflict and disorder. The world today is changing so rapidly that even the study of change has been compelled to keep pace. It was only a century ago that Gustave LeBon attempted to formulate a the ...
... cohesion and order, an overriding concern which seriously handicapped the scientific understanding of conflict and disorder. The world today is changing so rapidly that even the study of change has been compelled to keep pace. It was only a century ago that Gustave LeBon attempted to formulate a the ...
Review of Keith Thomas `Religion and the Decline
... ghosts and fairies, times and omens, with a general synthesis and conclusion. This work of 716 pages made an obvious allusion to Tawney's Religion and the Rise of Capitalism; it immediately became apparent that it was in the same class as the most important work of Tawney, Bloch or Maitland. This is ...
... ghosts and fairies, times and omens, with a general synthesis and conclusion. This work of 716 pages made an obvious allusion to Tawney's Religion and the Rise of Capitalism; it immediately became apparent that it was in the same class as the most important work of Tawney, Bloch or Maitland. This is ...
Chapter 4 of Student Study Notes
... racist behavior and in dealing with minority ethnic groups. Psychdynamic theory thus has less influence in social work than it might for two reasons. First, the historic cultural assumptions of psychodynamic theory established ‘normal’ ways of relating to others. Second, while psychodynamic theory m ...
... racist behavior and in dealing with minority ethnic groups. Psychdynamic theory thus has less influence in social work than it might for two reasons. First, the historic cultural assumptions of psychodynamic theory established ‘normal’ ways of relating to others. Second, while psychodynamic theory m ...
The fall and rise of Dr Pangloss: adaptationism and the Spandrels
... basis of these alternative models, to be compared (Boxes 2 and 3). They argued that this entailed recognizing the legitimacy of different approaches to evolution in which constraints upon optimization through natural selection would play a more central role. Of course, Gould and Lewontin freely admi ...
... basis of these alternative models, to be compared (Boxes 2 and 3). They argued that this entailed recognizing the legitimacy of different approaches to evolution in which constraints upon optimization through natural selection would play a more central role. Of course, Gould and Lewontin freely admi ...
Front Matter - Assets - Cambridge
... The Culture of Morality examines how explanations of social and moral development inform our understandings of morality and culture. A common theme in the latter part of the twentieth century has been to lament the moral state of American society and the decline of morality among youth. A sharp turn ...
... The Culture of Morality examines how explanations of social and moral development inform our understandings of morality and culture. A common theme in the latter part of the twentieth century has been to lament the moral state of American society and the decline of morality among youth. A sharp turn ...
CHAPTER 1: What is Anthropology
... 3. How did anthropology help disprove assumptions by American educators in the 1960s that African American schoolchildren rarely drank milk because they were poor and uneducated? a. Anthropological research has shown that many ethnic groups in different parts of the world, including Asians, Arabs, J ...
... 3. How did anthropology help disprove assumptions by American educators in the 1960s that African American schoolchildren rarely drank milk because they were poor and uneducated? a. Anthropological research has shown that many ethnic groups in different parts of the world, including Asians, Arabs, J ...
Social Evolution
... a lesser extent, in The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals in 1872. In both works, he provides an evolutionary account of the development and importance of sympathy and moral sense. In a crucial passage he seems to appeal both to direct reciprocity (Darwin 1871: ch. 5) and group selection ...
... a lesser extent, in The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals in 1872. In both works, he provides an evolutionary account of the development and importance of sympathy and moral sense. In a crucial passage he seems to appeal both to direct reciprocity (Darwin 1871: ch. 5) and group selection ...
Social Evolution
... a lesser extent, in The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals in 1872. In both works, he provides an evolutionary account of the development and importance of sympathy and moral sense. In a crucial passage he seems to appeal both to direct reciprocity (Darwin 1871: ch. 5) and group selection ...
... a lesser extent, in The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals in 1872. In both works, he provides an evolutionary account of the development and importance of sympathy and moral sense. In a crucial passage he seems to appeal both to direct reciprocity (Darwin 1871: ch. 5) and group selection ...
Fundamental Questions in Biology
... particular regions of the ecosystem. Are there particular conditions that select for novelty and for high mutation or recombination rates? What about for cooperative behavior? What is the relationship between the distribution of specific viral genes and the genes of other organisms, and can we begin ...
... particular regions of the ecosystem. Are there particular conditions that select for novelty and for high mutation or recombination rates? What about for cooperative behavior? What is the relationship between the distribution of specific viral genes and the genes of other organisms, and can we begin ...
Design a Fitness Plan
... Overload Principle: Increase the overload by manipulating the FIT principle Progression Principle: Gradually increase the level of exercise by manipulating the FIT principle Specificity Principle: An explicit activity targeting a particular body system must be performed to bring about fitnes ...
... Overload Principle: Increase the overload by manipulating the FIT principle Progression Principle: Gradually increase the level of exercise by manipulating the FIT principle Specificity Principle: An explicit activity targeting a particular body system must be performed to bring about fitnes ...
Sociology 12 Unit 1 Application
... The social theory courses provide students with different frameworks for looking at our social world. Understanding theory, even the perspectives of thinkers who lived long ago, helps us understand the underlying approaches of contemporary authors, and gives clues to the potential implications of th ...
... The social theory courses provide students with different frameworks for looking at our social world. Understanding theory, even the perspectives of thinkers who lived long ago, helps us understand the underlying approaches of contemporary authors, and gives clues to the potential implications of th ...
Anthropology, Eleventh Edition
... Studies material remains in order to describe and explain human behavior. Study tools, pottery, and other features such as hearths and enclosures that remain as the testimony of earlier cultures. ...
... Studies material remains in order to describe and explain human behavior. Study tools, pottery, and other features such as hearths and enclosures that remain as the testimony of earlier cultures. ...
Chapter 4: Major Theories for Understanding Human Development
... – A criticism of operant conditioning and classical conditioning is that they do not describe and explain what happens in a learner’s mind – Edward Tolman said that the learner develops a cognitive map or an internal mental representation of the learning environment – Map includes expectations about ...
... – A criticism of operant conditioning and classical conditioning is that they do not describe and explain what happens in a learner’s mind – Edward Tolman said that the learner develops a cognitive map or an internal mental representation of the learning environment – Map includes expectations about ...
Beyond the science of unfreedom - Assets
... anthropology, and its proper place an integral dimension of the anthropological enterprise as such. The reason for this is that ethical considerations pervade all spheres of human life. The anthropology of ethics, if it is to be successful, will have to find ways of bringing into focus and making am ...
... anthropology, and its proper place an integral dimension of the anthropological enterprise as such. The reason for this is that ethical considerations pervade all spheres of human life. The anthropology of ethics, if it is to be successful, will have to find ways of bringing into focus and making am ...
What is Sociological Theory?
... Morality – society should compel members what to do to curb self interest. Collective conscious – “totality of people’s beliefs and sentiments common to average citizens of the same society forms a determinate system which has its own life” (Durkheim1893/1964:79-80) General structure of shared ...
... Morality – society should compel members what to do to curb self interest. Collective conscious – “totality of people’s beliefs and sentiments common to average citizens of the same society forms a determinate system which has its own life” (Durkheim1893/1964:79-80) General structure of shared ...
Chapter 4 - A Science of Human Nature?
... The anthropological stress on the fact that humans live within a culturally and therefore historically constructed world was justified by the rhetorical trick of continually reiterating the refutation of the errors of early evolutionists. The constructivist claim then appears as the child of the old ...
... The anthropological stress on the fact that humans live within a culturally and therefore historically constructed world was justified by the rhetorical trick of continually reiterating the refutation of the errors of early evolutionists. The constructivist claim then appears as the child of the old ...
Health and Fitness
... Height, Weight and Somatotype: Your body size and shape can impact upon how suited you are to some sports Illness and Injury: Either of these can be temporary or permanent in the way they affect your fitness levels Psychological Factors: Stress and anxiety involved in work and training can affect ou ...
... Height, Weight and Somatotype: Your body size and shape can impact upon how suited you are to some sports Illness and Injury: Either of these can be temporary or permanent in the way they affect your fitness levels Psychological Factors: Stress and anxiety involved in work and training can affect ou ...
The evolution of a unicellular bottleneck in the life history of
... Multi-cellular organisms are collectives of cells Collective living exists in virtue of opportunity for mutual advantage - economies of scale, division of labour, reduced risk of predation due to size, etc. But cooperation is undermined by the Tragedy of the Commons, the so-called ‘free-rider proble ...
... Multi-cellular organisms are collectives of cells Collective living exists in virtue of opportunity for mutual advantage - economies of scale, division of labour, reduced risk of predation due to size, etc. But cooperation is undermined by the Tragedy of the Commons, the so-called ‘free-rider proble ...
Local integration 1
... fed by others etc) • not restricted to kin • Cooperative behavior presumably has a genetic basis • But how did the genes coding for cooperative behavior ever get established in the gene pool? • natural selection seems to favor “selfish” behavior - free riders can always exploit altruists ...
... fed by others etc) • not restricted to kin • Cooperative behavior presumably has a genetic basis • But how did the genes coding for cooperative behavior ever get established in the gene pool? • natural selection seems to favor “selfish” behavior - free riders can always exploit altruists ...
Social Psychology and the Comic-Book Superhero: A
... The Art Instinct as a seminal contribution to the philosophy of art; but its value does not end here. Given that evolutionary theory is itself an ongoing intellectual project, Dutton’s approach necessarily lends itself to extension and revision as new discoveries are made about the human cognitive e ...
... The Art Instinct as a seminal contribution to the philosophy of art; but its value does not end here. Given that evolutionary theory is itself an ongoing intellectual project, Dutton’s approach necessarily lends itself to extension and revision as new discoveries are made about the human cognitive e ...