Ev Explanatins Of Group Display Eg. Sport, Welfare

Question 1

AO1

Advantages
Warfare - Yanomamo tribe, Lehmann and Feldmmann
Sport - Rugby union, football holliganism

Answer 1

Advantages - acquire and protect resources - food/territory - often the only way to get these is through force

• gain status - greater access to mates and resources - less likely to be challenged
• ensure faithfulness

Warfare
- Yanomamo tribe - obsessed with size of village - target small ones delib to increase chance of winning
Abduct women to show dominance, constant fighting improved access to mates - the men who killed were the ones who were married
- Lehmann and Feldmann - two traits have evolved - bravery and belligerence - bravery has advantage when on offence - tribes high in both are more likely to war and win but also to die - benefits group not individual

Sport -
- Rugby union - sanctioned agg - gives opportunity to show off warrior skills - Haka highlights imp of winning
Tackling involves athleticism which relates to male’s ability to hunt and provide - brings warfare benefits without the cost
- Football hooliganism - human equivalent of ceremonial conflict - puts other rivals off

Question 2

AO2

Cialdani 
Maxwell & Vischet 
Pinker
Ev reductionist
Determinist

Answer 2

Cialdani - ‘basking in reflective glory’ after a football team students more likely to wear uni identifiable clothing - enhancing their image

Maxwell and Vischet - 144 rugby players q’d about agg acts - those high in professionalism emphasised winning over a fair game and even learned to pull off illegal moves undetected

Pinker - WW2 - systematic rape in concentrations camps and more than 20,000 Muslim women raped in Bosnia

Ev red - anonymity etc shown to have impact

Determinist - excuses violent beh as we’re predispositioned