Culture as a Determinant of Group Identity
Culture is a key factor that determines the identity of a group, but very few consider its roots and the reason for following one tradition over another. With activities such as clothes, food spices, and attitudes, nonhuman pirates are like humans, but they do not know what they are doing (Vale et al. 492).
Shortcomings in Animals' Understanding of Traditions
However, due to a lack of normative adherence and accumulated process evidence, animals have shortcomings in understanding their traditions (Richard 581). The material subsistence allows for the reliance of the natural resources for the provision of the essential needs through hunting and gathering while the social organization enhances cohesion among the individuals and the social groups via structure, the division of labor or sexuality.
Westermarck Hypothesis: Insensate Sexual Attraction
Westermarck hypothesis psychologically assumes insensate sexual attraction among the individuals raised together (Shor). A tension emerging from connecting ideas with the material forces influences the analysis and functioning of the real world. Societies' organization to either males or females allows kinship recognition that eliminates everybody from being kin to everyone else.
Gender Ideals and Sexual Behaviors
Gender ideals describe the relevant, acceptable, and appropriate roles among the males and females while the sexual behaviors express human sexuality. In tribal societies, revenge acts as a harmful mode of responding to grievances that stimulate war while religious groups instill the discipline that influences their success. However, mental illness tends to be biological.
Works Cited
Richard, W.B. "Culture in Great Apes: Using Intricate Complexity in Feeding Skills to Trace the Evolutionary Origin of Human Technical Prowess." The Royal Society Publishing, 2007, pp. 577-585.
Shor, E. The Westermarck Hypothesis, and the Israeli Kibbutzim: Reconciling Contrasting Evidence. 18, Jan. 2014.
Vale, G.L., Kendal, R.L., Carr, K., & Dean, L.G. "The Cultural Capacity of Human and Nonhuman Primates: Social Learning, Innovation, and Cumulative Culture." Oxford: Academic Press, 2017, pp. 475-508.
