Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lewontin and his co-authors have written a lucid and energetic rebuttal to the widely publicized news that genes control and and determine all social behavior. Since 1975, at least three new sociobiological journals have started up, and scores of papers and books have been written, following Wilson's celebrated Sociobiology: The New Synthesis. (He later focused on the most controversial aspect of his theory, human sociobiology, in On Human Nature.) Biologists immediately praised the work as an integration of evolutionary biology and anthropology. Sociobiology came into vogue in the late 70s and early 80s, when it was used...
...ridiculous idea that is refuted by experience (women in positions of power do not behave any differently from men) and by logic (presumably women of mature leadership age would have passed menopause anyhow). The suspicion about feminine instability seems especially silly in the light of some of the bizarre behavior that men have exhibited in the White House?during the last days of the Nixon Administration, for example, or during the time when Lyndon Johnson was beleaguered there. Why be concerned that a woman might, in the throes of some monthly lunacy, want to nuke Leningrad? Of more concern might...
Actually, sexual harassment is not that difficult to recognize. Sexual harassment is a professor talking about having a "magic tongue." It is grabbing a student's breast or lying on the floor and staring up her skirt...It is not, in the vast majority of cases, ambiguous behavior. It is not, as some imply, a figment of a students' imagination or a weapon women use to damage men's reputations. These worries are usually expressed by men and women who have had little experience dealing with harassment cases or who impose confusion on themselves...
...still founders on several key points. Pornography may contribute to an attitude conducive to sexual harassment and rape, but the same has been about suggestive advertising. And why limit a campaign against violence to that committed against women? Studies have documented the link between violence on television and violent behavior; The A-Team encourages more violence than Hustler and Screw combined...
...similar fashion, the understanding that a great deal of disease in this country can be prevented by changing people's behavior, has not been exploited. Despite the known risks, people still smoke cigarettes (in fact, the government still supports tobacco farming), drive without seat belts, are overweight, don't exercise, drink too much, ignore the risk of cancer in getting a suntan, abuse drugs and have trouble coping with stress. Here, too, is an area waiting to be exploited by better teaching...