Cultural Anthropology
Question 1: Males, Females, and Natural Selection The differences between male and females seem obviously different. Of course, society is coming away from the objectification and sexism seen in the past and now moving forward to look at the biological, genetic, and cultural differences between the two sexes. One theory of these differences comes in the form of the Parental Investment Theory. Another way of explaining their differences is through cultural determinism. Firstly, the Parental Investment Theory, as explained by antropology.org is “the allocation of resources, such as time or energy, to offspring that incurs some cost to the parent. That cost is usually measured in terms of the benefits to a particular …show more content…
These social construction comes in the form of pairing gender expression with biological sex and determines which traits should be attributed to the two sexes. Often, this comes in the form creating an imbalance between the two sexes and explains a history of …show more content…
This time being so miniscule, that it is hard to believe that human culture has become such the diverse, intersecting organism that it is today. With a world that is constantly moving and changing it’s quite easy to focus on our differences: languages, customs, religions, and community structures, while simultaneously intersecting organism that it is today. With a world that is constantly moving and changing, it 's quite easy to focus on our differences: languages, customs, religions, and community structures, while simultaneously putting our similarities on the back burner in favor of celebration, and sometimes condemnation, of our cultural differences. Of course, most of us can agree at some point, we all came from a single origin which then branched out over time to become the individualized, highly complex societies we 've come to know and appreciate. On the other hand, perhaps we should consider our cultural similarities more often. Are we truly as different as we appear to be, or is there a possibility that the strange, outlandish traditions and customs of one culture may be just as odd as the next, regardless of eithers normalization on a societal or worldly
Question 1: Males, Females, and Natural Selection The differences between male and females seem obviously different. Of course, society is coming away from the objectification and sexism seen in the past and now moving forward to look at the biological, genetic, and cultural differences between the two sexes. One theory of these differences comes in the form of the Parental Investment Theory. Another way of explaining their differences is through cultural determinism. Firstly, the Parental Investment Theory, as explained by antropology.org is “the allocation of resources, such as time or energy, to offspring that incurs some cost to the parent. That cost is usually measured in terms of the benefits to a particular …show more content…
These social construction comes in the form of pairing gender expression with biological sex and determines which traits should be attributed to the two sexes. Often, this comes in the form creating an imbalance between the two sexes and explains a history of …show more content…
This time being so miniscule, that it is hard to believe that human culture has become such the diverse, intersecting organism that it is today. With a world that is constantly moving and changing it’s quite easy to focus on our differences: languages, customs, religions, and community structures, while simultaneously intersecting organism that it is today. With a world that is constantly moving and changing, it 's quite easy to focus on our differences: languages, customs, religions, and community structures, while simultaneously putting our similarities on the back burner in favor of celebration, and sometimes condemnation, of our cultural differences. Of course, most of us can agree at some point, we all came from a single origin which then branched out over time to become the individualized, highly complex societies we 've come to know and appreciate. On the other hand, perhaps we should consider our cultural similarities more often. Are we truly as different as we appear to be, or is there a possibility that the strange, outlandish traditions and customs of one culture may be just as odd as the next, regardless of eithers normalization on a societal or worldly