scholarly journals How universal are human mate choices? Size does not matter when Hadza foragers are choosing a mate

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 606-609 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Sear ◽  
Frank W. Marlowe
Keyword(s):  
Body Mass Index ◽  
Mate Choice ◽  
Grip Strength ◽  
Mating Behaviour ◽  
Random Mating ◽  
Mating Patterns ◽  
Traditional Societies ◽  
Human Mating ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Industrial Societies

It has been argued that size matters on the human mate market: both stated preferences and mate choices have been found to be non-random with respect to height and weight. But how universal are these patterns? Most of the literature on human mating patterns is based on post-industrial societies. Much less is known about mating behaviour in more traditional societies. Here we investigate mate choice by analysing whether there is any evidence for non-random mating with respect to size and strength in a forager community, the Hadza of Tanzania. We test whether couples assort for height, weight, body mass index (BMI), per cent fat and grip strength. We test whether there is a male-taller norm. Finally, we test for an association between anthropometric variables and number of marriages. Our results show no evidence for assortative mating for height, weight, BMI or per cent fat; no evidence for a male-taller norm and no evidence that number of marriages is associated with our size variables. Hadza couples may assort positively for grip strength, but grip strength does not affect the number of marriages. Overall we conclude that, in contrast to post-industrial societies, mating appears to be random with respect to size in the Hadza.

scholarly journals Parental influence over mate choice in a post-industrial context

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Menelaos Apostolou
Keyword(s):  
Mate Choice ◽  
Parental Influence ◽  
Mating Behaviour ◽  
Direct Control ◽  
Mothers And Fathers ◽  
Conflicting Interests ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Industrial Societies ◽  
Industrial Context ◽  
Equal Interest

Conflicting interests over mating underpin parental attempts to control the mating behaviour of their children. In post-industrial societies, certain constraints prevent parents from enforcing direct control, however, this paper hypothesises that parents maintain a considerable interest in influencing their offspring’s mate choices. It is further hypothesised that wealthy parents are more interested in influencing their children’s mating behaviour than less wealthy ones, and that parents are more interested in influencing the mate choices of their daughters than of their sons. Finally, the hypothesis is tested that mothers and fathers have an equal interest in the mating behaviour of their offspring. Evidence from a sample of 340 parents provides support for the first three hypotheses, but it indicates that mothers are more interested in influencing their children’s mate choices than fathers.

scholarly journals A generalization of the informational view of non-random mating: Models with variable population frequencies

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Carvajal-Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Selection ◽  
Mate Choice ◽  
Breeding Season ◽  
Random Mating ◽  
Sexual Isolation ◽  
Total Change ◽  
Mixed Effect ◽  
Mating Patterns ◽  
Variable Population ◽  
Flow Of Information

AbstractMate choice may generate non-random mating patterns. It has been recently shown that the mating distribution caused by mate choice can be expressed as a gain in information with respect to random mating. In that model, the population phenotypic frequencies were assumed as constant during the breeding season. In the present work such restriction was relaxed to consider different encounter-mating processes in which the population frequencies of available individuals change over mating rounds. As with the constant case, here we describe the change in the mating phenotypes by the flow of information with respect to random mating. This information can be partitioned into sexual selection, sexual isolation and a mixed effect. Likewise, the pairwise statistics for total change, sexual selection and sexual isolation are generalized for variable population frequencies.The new tests had more power for the detection of the effects of non-random mating when the population frequencies vary during the breeding season. The differences in power were high for sexual selection but slight for sexual isolation scenarios. However, the application of the new formulas require the estimation of frequencies at each mating round. Therefore, choosing one or another type of statistics would depend on the biological scenario as well as in the availability and easiness to split the sampling in more than one mating round.

Review of Human Mating Patterns.

1991 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 346-346
Author(s):  
David M. Buss
Keyword(s):  
Mating Patterns ◽  
Human Mating

Post-Industrial model of Society, Education and science in Philosophical concepts of Radical Pedagogy in the context of Globalization for the Sustainable Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Viktor Zinchenko ◽  
Nataliia Krokhmal ◽  
Оlha Horpynych ◽  
Nataliia Fialko
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Theory Theory ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Security Education ◽  
Theory Of Education ◽  
Socially Excluded ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Industrial Societies

Critical theory of education should be based on a critical theory of society, which is conceptually analyzes the features of actually existing industrial and post-industrial societies and their relations of domination and subordination (oppression), conflict and the prospects for progressive social change and transformative practices that make projects more complete, freer life and democratic society. Criticality theory means a way of seeing and understanding, building categories, making connections, reflection and participation in practice theory, theory of withdrawal of social practice.This term contains an element of emancipation, liberation and self-determination of the oppressed and exploited masses, recognizing that people are socially excluded from the material security, education and decision-making can share vidrefleksuvaty their situation, realize that it is unauthorized again, and realize that they must organize themselves in order to change the structure of society.

Disappointing poverty trends: is the social investment state to blame?

2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 450-471 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Vandenbroucke ◽  
Koen Vleminckx
Keyword(s):  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Resource Competition ◽  
Social Investment ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Working Age ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Industrial Societies ◽  
The Eu

Should we explain the disappointing outcomes of the Open Method of Co-ordination on Inclusion by methodological weaknesses or by substantive contradictions in the ‘social investment’ paradigm? To clarify the underlying concepts, we first revisit the original ‘Lisbon inspiration’ and then relate it to the idea of the ‘new welfare state’, as proposed in the literature on new risks in post-industrial societies. We then discuss two explanations for disappointing poverty trends, suggested by critical accounts of the ‘social investment state’: ‘resource competition’ and a ‘re-commodification’. We do not find these explanations convincing per se and conclude that the jury is still out on the ‘social investment state’. However, policy-makers cannot ignore the failure of employment policies to reduce the proportion of children and working-age adults living in jobless households in the EU, and they should not deny the reality of a ‘trilemma of activation’. Finally, we identify policy conditions that may facilitate the complementarity of social investment and social inclusion.

Self and Body

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta Sassatelli
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
The Body ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Specific Configuration ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Industrial Societies ◽  
Late Modern

This article investigates the historical formation and specific configuration of a threefold relation crucial to contemporary society, that between the body, the self, and material culture, which, in contemporary, late modern (or post-industrial) societies, has become largely defined through consumer culture. Drawing on historiography, sociology, and anthropology, it explores how, from the early modern period, the consolidation of new consumption patterns and values has given way to particular visions of the human being as a consumer, and how, in turn, the consumer has become a cultural battlefield for the management of body and self. The article also discusses tastes, habitus, and individualization.

scholarly journals An impact of the distance on grandparental childcare: A comparative study conducted in Russia, the United States, and Brazil

2021 ◽  
pp. 139-152
Author(s):  
Olga Vladimirovna Semenova ◽  
◽  
Marina Lvovna Butovskaya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Online Surveys ◽  
R Software ◽  
Grandparental Childcare ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Industrial Societies

We tested this prediction on data collected in three cultural contexts of modern post-industrial societies. Quantitative data on the frequency of grandparental involvement in childcare were collected via a set of online surveys conducted in 2019 in Russia, the United States, and Brazil (N= 1531) and analyzed in R software. The current research was also focused on the analysis of the impact of the distance between households on the frequency of kinship assistance in childcare. Results. We found significant cross-cultural universalizes: 1) the distance between households negatively affects the frequency of help; 2) the care of the maternal grandparents is significantly higher than the care of the paternal grandparents. Discussion. In this study we found that the distance between households and family kin side have stable significant impact on the grandparental help cross-culturally. At the same time, it was shown that grandparental help in childcare is significantly reduced in Brazil compared to the other two studied countries. The phenomenon of reduced kin help in Brazil is an important finding and requires further research by evolutionary psychologists, anthropologists, and sociologists.

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