Social Psychology Rant

[everywomanshero]

On sosuave, we can see a number of different perspectives on socialization, especially in reagrds to male-female relationships. Before we all go crazy and declare the human experience nothing more than surviving and reproducing, I thought to look at other perspectives (with emphasis on sosuave-relevant subjects):

Socialcultural Perspective: Individuals are affected by group level factors. Focus is on social norms (which can quickly change) and culture.
SOSUAVE EXAMPLE: "Being Asian makes it hard to pickup chix." threads

Evolutionary Perspective: Assumes that human social behaviors are rooted in physical and psychological predispositions that helped our ancestors survive and reproduce.
SOSUAVE EXAMPLE: "Girl's are driven by unconcious motivation to score" threads.

Social Learning Perspective: Behavior is driven by past experiences with rewards or punishments. Focus on individual experiences within groups rather than larger social aggregates.
SOSUAVE EXAMPLE: "Don't let her get away with that s$%^& man!" threads or "give her positive rewards for good behavior" threads.

Phenomonological Perspective: Social behavior is driven by subjective interpretations of events in the social world. The interpretations are related to one's goals. People do not discover reality, they invent it.
SOSUAVE EXAMPLE: Bet you can all think of many to go here.

 

[Pettycoat Junction]

Evolutionary Perspective: Assumes that human social behaviors are rooted in physical and psychological predispositions that helped our ancestors survive and reproduce.
SOSUAVE EXAMPLE: "Girl's are driven by unconcious motivation to score" threads.
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I figure most of it comes down to this. My philosophy is people are attracted to people who, if we were still living in the woods, swamps and deserts of Africa like we did 100,000 years ago would be people who have healthy genes, are fertile, will help raise the kids and whose kids will survive into adulthood and have an easy time mating themselves.

Take Jack Osbourne. He has sex with beautiful women despite being ugly with a bad personality. I am sure on some level when women are/were throwing themselves at Ozzy they were doing it because they knew no matter how their kid turned out he'd be able to get sex on demand just by being the son of a famous person.

 

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Interesting and accurate perspective. All in all, each perspective relates to a level of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.