SOC 312

Biosociology

The questions of biological influences on culture and cultural influences on biology are explored from the sociological perspective. "We enter this world with a fundamental human nature - a set of behavioral dispositions-rooted in the design systems of our species and its long evolutionary history" (Walsh 2014). Genes and culture are co-evolutionary partners - we are, in effect, born unfinished; to be finished through culture and our interactions within it (Geertz). There is a biological framework that calls for culture and cultural responses that complete biological development. This continues to be a controversial but evolving field of inquiry.

Units: 3.0