Plusnin, Juri M.

THE HUMAN BEHAVIOR

BIOLOGICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, AND SOCIAL ASPECTS OF INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOR

Introduction

Behavior and Activity. The Epistemology of Behavioral Science

Behavioral sciences as an epistemological background of the anthropology and social philosophy. The different roots of human behavior. The correlation between biological, psychological, and social determinants of human behavior. Everyday behavior and its physical and social environment. Problems of description of human behavior: measurement and knowledge of behavior. The problem of intentionality in the behavioral sciences: interpretation and understanding.

Part I

MECHANISMS OF ADAPTIVE RESPONSES:

BIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Chapter 1

The Principles of the Human Ethology

The subject and methodology of ethology.  Short history of human ethology. Theories of human behavior. Behavioral genetics. Genetic and epigenetic regulative mechanisms of behavior. Problem of stereotype: correlation between motor patterns, dynamic and cultural stereotypes. Developing of individual behavior. Child and adult behavior. Cross-cultural differences. Human behavior in archaic, traditional and modern societies.

Chapter 2

The Behavioral Ecology of Human Beings

Environmental psychology and proxemics. Social environment of behavior: communication, interaction and social dynamics. Behavioral ecology in the local and global perspectives. Behavioral differences in small group and large society. From archaic patterns of surviving to the urban ecology: behavioral context.

Part  II

INDIVIDUALITY IN THE MAKING:

PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Chapter 3

Psychological Approaches to the Problem of Individual Behavior

Behavioral, psychoanalytic and personalistic tradition of individual behavior studying. Personality and its conduct: rationality and instinctive behavior as an integral components of human behavior.

Chapter 4

Socialization and Behavioral Determination of Personality

Early socialization and developing of behavior. Individuation and individuality in daily behavior: problems of determination and recognition. Enculturation and formation of conscious behavior. Adult behavior and formation of sexual differences. The natural and deliberate conduct in cultural environment. Free-cultural (independent) patterns and behavioral invariants.

Chapter 5

Addictive Behavior and Its Formation

The forms of delinquent and addictive behavior. The developing of adolescent addictive behavior. Problem of addictions expansion. Aggressive and suicidal behavior. Asocial and anti-social behavior. Fanatic and conformism behavior. Narcissic behavior and sexual perversions. Psychotic behavior.

Part III

ETHOLOGY OF THE SOCIAL ROLE:

SOCIAL ASPECTS OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Chapter 6

Social Determination of Individual Behavior

Social relations ant its behavioral representation. Social roles and behavioral mechanisms. Ritualization. Social dynamic stereotypes. The natural and ritual behavior. Spatial, communicative and social dynamic components in the structure of social behavior.

Chapter 7

Invariants of Behavior. I. Vicinity and Kinship

Aggressive behavior and aggression. Inter-individual and inter-group conflict: problem of behavioral distinction. Spatial behavior and territoriality: from individual to societal behavior. Aggression and territoriality. Aggressive behavior and spatial behavior. The behavior of vicinity as the first invariant of human behavior.

Sexual and reproductive behavior. Family and socialization. Sociobiological typology of families and corresponding reproductive behavior of adult men and women.  Types of families in archaic, traditional and modern societies and types of related behavior. The behavior of kinship as the second invariant of human behavior.

Chapter 8

Invariants of Behavior. II. Subordination and Friendship

Social hierarchy and individual behavior. Dominance and subordinate behavioral patterns: correlation between social status and its behavioral expression. Cultural differences and invariants of status-oriented behavior. Etiquette and ceremonial from the biological point of view. The subordination as the third invariant of human behavior.

Altruism and affiliate behavior. Reciprocity and mutual aid. Alliance. Alliances of adult men and women: sexual segregation an altruistic behavior. Friendship and male leagues, its role in social development. The friendship behavior as the forth invariant of human behavior.

Chapter 9

Social Cultural Variations of Human Behavior

Human behavior in archaic and traditional societies. Typical behavioral differences based on the cultural and social cases. Man of South and man of North: what is the reason for behavioral differences? Cultural determination of individual behavior in East and West. The Europe in the ages of the Old Order and New Order: problem of cultural transformation of individual behavior. Invariants of behavior and behavioral varieties.