The origins and evolution of human behavior studies belong to both psychology and sociology, the former on a micro scale and the latter on a macro scale according to a four-dimensional evolutionary process that for clarity is formed as follows : psychosocial-micro-meso-macro , in ascending order.
This course focuses mainly on the macro scale while considering the evolutionary process tout court.
The normal/deviant code is presented here in essence as a prospective error of scale of the psycho-social and the micro i.e. mistaking a certain small-scale homogeneity and density, " The country is small and the people murmur," for a universal rule.
What is criminal is established in criminal , deviance on the macro scale becomes self-evidently nonexistent and is revealed for the prospective deception that it is. The deviant individual does not exist, either he is a citizen who follows the law or he is an outlaw but he is not deviant .Deviant collective action on the other hand exists as a hypothetical antechamber to organized crime whenever a community declares " the law establishes this but our traditions , customs etc. inspire us to something else so the law must be corrected " Fine if this opens a debate in the appropriate institutional venues and the law is changed but if the law does not change and remains only on the books because the behaviors are other and shared then there criminal organizations are being formed.
Sociology has generated two important spin offs: political science and communication science, both of which have influenced BS. Their applications occur in two specific fields:
on the one hand, global intelligence studies (including terrorism/antiterrorism and military strategies) and on the other hand, the political behavior of the masses, a case in point being campaign planning and manipulation of public opinion.
The micro aspects focus on the behavior of "guinea pigs" in a small and well delineated box, the macro aspects, on the other hand, focus on the design and construction of large and not well delineated boxes in which "guinea pigs" can move (think, for example, of the legal norms and procedures of elections and the media representation of different parties' campaigns).
Therefore, from this perspective, the sociological evolutionary process fully reveals its interdisciplinarity by meeting with
Psychology, human ethology, biology, criminology, etc.
How then does behavioral evolution leading to action occur? How does heterodirected, externally manipulated behavior evolve into cognitive action, through the functional direction from presumed normality to presumed deviance to a reconstructed complex and varied evolutionary normality ? A first answer suggests that re indispensable dimensions are involved 1 Behavioral observation ( non-intrusive and non-participant ), 2 Empathic phenomenological listening ( e.g., through semi-instructed interviews with photostimulus ) 3 The constructivist design of both setting and context , since a properly experimental approach is not possible in the social-political sciences do testing In coeteris paribus.