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This is obviously correct, at least with respect to prisoners. It also does not require that male aggression be socialized—it holds equally well if it's innate.
by pgcj_poster 5y ago
This is obviously correct, at least with respect to prisoners.
It also does not require that male aggression be socialized—it holds equally well if it's innate.
- belorn 5y agoAggression as a word is socially context dependent. People can be competing aggressively at a donation drive about who can donate the highest amount of money to charity. The distinction between innate vs socialized becomes a bit muddy when dealing with humans.
- woodruffw 5y agoSure. But again, parsimony: we have lots of evidence for aggressive male socialization (including decreasing aggressive socialization as society becomes more egalitarian), and relatively little reproducible evidence for innate male aggression.
- wskinner 5y agoDecreasing aggressive socialization as society becomes more egalitarian would seem to be evidence for the _opposite_ of "aggressive male socialization". And that points to the baseline level of male aggression being higher than it is in egalitarian societies.
- woodruffw 5y ago> Decreasing aggressive socialization as society becomes more egalitarian would seem to be evidence for the _opposite_ of "aggressive male socialization". It's evidence for an opposite social trend, not evidence of the total absence of aggressive socialization either presently or historically.