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Why does biological explanations hold a place of prominence in our explanations of both gender difference and gender inequality?
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(1) biological explainations are based on objective scientific facs
(2) bio explaination accord with our own observations |
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Only thing associated with the theories and work of charles darwin, this philosopher applies the theory of natural selection to differences, competitions, and inequality among races, nations and families and between men and women
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Social darwinism
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After Darwin, evolutionary biologists abandoned social darwinism. Social darwinism out, ____ in
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Sociobiology
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Studies the biological basis of social behaviour in all animals (including human beings0
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Sociobiology
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What do sociobiolgists argue?
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All creatures obey the biological principl and all all tempermental diffrences come from the pressure of evolutionary selection
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What do sociobiologists believe about the difference in male and female sexuality?
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Result of evolutionary development and choices
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The newest incarnation of sociobiology is..
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Evolutionary psychology
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Explains psychological traits, including differences between women and men as evolutionary adaptations
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Evolutionary psychology
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Craniology has 3 focuses
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1.) diff between left and right hemisphere
2.) the ways m and f uses dif parts for similar functions 3.) dif in tissues that connect l and r hemisphere |
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What did Geschwind believe for women and men brains?
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That men's brains are more lateralized (testosterone washes attacking left side) and womens are less lateralized
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Allows us to justify and rationalize existing social arrangements
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Palliative system justification motive
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Hermaphrodite people affected by hormonal and chromosomal abnormalities
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Intersexed
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Intersex accounts for about __ % of all births
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1.7
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A preponderance of male hormones (androgens) in their systems at birth
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Androgenital syndrome
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Androgenital syndrome is now more commonly described as ...
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Congenital adrenal hyperplaia
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