Explain Why John Gray's Book Men Are from Mars,Women Are

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Essay

Explain why John Gray's book Men Are from Mars,Women Are from Venus may be considered essentialist.How might a sociologist view the same phenomenon?

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Definitions:

Human Nature

The inherent characteristics, including ways of thinking, feeling, and acting, that all humans tend to have naturally, irrespective of the influence of culture.

Sexual Impulses

Natural, spontaneous desires or urges related to sexual activity.

Pleasure Principle

A concept in psychoanalytic theory referring to the instinctual seeking of pleasure and avoiding pain to satisfy biological and psychological needs.

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In psychoanalytic theory, the part of the psyche that is the source of instinctual impulses and demands for immediate satisfaction of primitive needs.