What's normal? : reconciling biology and culture / Allan V. Horwitz
| データ種別 | 電子ブック |
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| 出版者 | New York : Oxford University Press |
| 出版年 | [2016] |
| 本文言語 | 英語 |
| 大きさ | 1 online resource |
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| 一般注記 | Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-257) and index Summary: " Since the emergence of Western philosophy and science among the classical Greeks, debates have raged over the relative significance of biology and culture on an individual's behavior. Today, recent advances in genetics and biological science have pushed most scholars past the tired nature vs. nurture debate to examine the ways in which the natural and the social interact to influence human behavior. In What's Normal?, Allan Horwitz brings a fresh approach to this emerging perspective. Rather than try to solve these issues universally, Horwitz demonstrates that both social and biological mechanisms have varying degrees of influence in different situations. Through case studies of human universals such as incest aversion, fear, appetite, grief, and sex, Horwitz first discusses the extreme instances where biology determines behavior, where culture dominates, and where culture overrides basic biological instincts. He then details the variety of ways in which genes and environments interact; for instan Summary: "An examination of the roles that biological and social forces play in determining human behavior"-- Provided by publisher Includes bibliographical references and index |
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| 著者標目 | *Horwitz, Allan V. author |
| 件 名 | LCSH:Human behavior LCSH:Human biology -- Social aspects 全ての件名で検索 LCSH:Cognitive psychology FREE:SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. bisacsh FREE:PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology. bisacsh FREE:SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General. bisacsh |
| 分 類 | LCC:HM1033 DC23:302 |
| 巻冊次 | ISBN:9780190603250 ; XISBN:9780190603281  ISBN:9780190603243 ; XISBN:9780190603281 XISBN:9780190603274 (EPUB)
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| ISBN | 9780190603250 |
| URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190603243.001.0001 |
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