Social Science

The trouble with knowing whether mental illness exists is that it depends upon what one means by Mental Illness. Even examining just two important fields of society, Medical and Legal, the definition of something like “Insanity” is completely different.  Beyond…
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David Graeber argues for the development of a novel, or somewhat novel approach to Anarchist theory in his long pamphlet called Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology.  Anthropologists, he notes, are the people who interact on a daily basis with contemporary…
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What is an ego? Is this an apt description of some part of our soul or not? An ego is the out-posted sentry of the soul that lives within the body attached to our mind on one side, and to…
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Very recently there has been some very exciting news about the fate of the Neanderthals.  Seems about 4% of the Human Genome is made up of Neanderthal genes. This means that in the past modern Humans also called Homo sapiens,…
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Both cognitive psychology theory and evolutionary psychology theory have their roots firmly ensconced in previously established schools of thought.   Cognitive Psychology  Although cognitive psychology and behaviorism have elemental similarities, cognitive psychology is significantly different on several points.  Cognitive psychology is…
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Forensic anthropology is mainly study of osteology, or study of the bones. It is a subfield of biological anthropology, where the focus is on borrowed techniques from skeletal biology and osteology that are applied to “forensic” or legal situations. In legal situations,…
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When people herd together, they instinctively behave as other herd animals. In most animal groups, the crowd is known to act as one unit.   Humans, being animals too, adopt the same kind of herd mentality.  The group will act differently…
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There are a few bits of evidence that point to there having been a phase in human evolution in which we were mainly or partly aquatic. First of all, you can take a look at aquatic mammals such as the…
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Today there is a complex web of human activity, production, consumption, waste and a host of anthropogenic and natural environmental influences and consequences. There is no modeling or single disciplinary approach for environmental crisis that can even describe the complexity, let alone…
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BF Skinner made significant contributions to psychology. His stimulus response or S-R theory is instrumental in explaining how the mind can be conditioned to pair a response to a certain stimulus. Teachers use this theory in the classroom as students…
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