Male sexual despots rewrite history
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 - 08:40
in Psychology & Sociology
"Heredity", opined the pioneering cultural anthropologist Alfred L. Kroeber in 1915, "cannot be allowed to have acted any part in history". I have yet to encounter a crisper expression of the view that biological explanations have no place in the study of society and history. Kroeber's words have resonated through the social sciences for a century, divorcing nurture from nature, social from biological, at considerable harm to our understanding of society and what it means to be human.