cam a22 4500 551397764 CHVBK 20201114040311.0 m d cr |n |||||||| 160425s2016 nyu sb 001 0 eng d 2016006865 978-0-19-060325-0 (paperback) 978-0-19-060324-3 (hardcover) 978-0-19-060326-7 (updf) 978-0-19-060327-4 (epub) (SERSOL)ssj0001710981 (WaSeSS)ssj0001710981 DLC eng DLC DLC WaSeSS rda HM1033 .H76 2016 302 23 SOC026000 PSY008000 SOC002000 bisacsh Horwitz Allan V. author What's normal? reconciling biology and culture Allan V. Horwitz New York Oxford University Press [2016] 1 online resource (x, 273 pages) text txt rdacontent/eng computer c rdamedia/eng online resource cr rdacarrier/eng Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-257) and index. Includes bibliographical references and index. Lizenzbedingungen können den Zugang einschränken. License restrictions may limit access. " 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 instance, the primal drive to eat and store calories when food supplies were scarce and behavioral patterns in a society where food is abundant and obesity stigmatized. Now that it's often easier to change our biology rather than our culture, an understanding of which behaviors and traits are simply normal or abnormal, and which are pathological or necesitate treatment is more important than ever. Wide-ranging and accessible, What's Normal? provides a crucial guide to the biological and social bases of human behavior at the heart of these matters. "-- "An examination of the roles that biological and social forces play in determining human behavior"-- Human behavior Human biology Social aspects Cognitive psychology SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General bisacsh PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General bisacsh https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190603243.001.0001/acprof-9780190603243 Uni Bern: Volltext BK020053 XK020053 XK020000 Oxford Scholarship Online Sociology Oxford Scholarship Online E-Books von 360MarcUpdates IDSBB B405 B405 405VT IDSBB 100 1- Horwitz Allan V. author IDSBB 856 40 https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190603243.001.0001/acprof-9780190603243 Uni Bern: Volltext SWISSBIB 486816974