Criticism 3

In the Clatterbaugh reading, I found the third criticism to be most appealing to me. I am a psychology POE and love sociology so it is interesting to read through all of these different critiques of sociobiology. Criticism 3 accuses sociobiology of making rather general statements or far-fetched correlations between certain human behaviors and biology. It is saying that because these behaviors are prevalent within the human race and within the animal kingdom, they must have some biological purpose. However, they do not offer a measurement for prevalence. Also, there is no way of knowing for sure that these behaviors stuck around because they serve a biological function. At best one could say that they are correlated but it is impossible to distinguish a direct relationship between the two. Therefore, it is not at all credible to make such a claim. Maybe someday a direct relationship will be found but for now it is not valid enough to use in any sort of argument. Also, reading this piece definitely helped me with my argument analysis paper. It is a good example of how to pick apart a certain topic and provide explanations and evidence that support the criticisms!