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Nature vs. Nurture Essay Plan –Is it Nature or Nurture which determines human behaviour ?
FOR NATURE: AGAINST NATURE
- Nature is determining factor of human - If gender roles are of a fixed nature why
behaviour as Gender roles are are women now able to go out and
biologically determined not socially work and develop and build systems
Lionel Tiger and Robin Fox (1971) and just like men. Gender roles are clearly
Simon Baron-Cohen (2012) – brains not determined by biology as they are
genetically hard wired easily rejected
- Culture is based upon human desire to - If our behaviour was in our genes then
continue the life of the social group people all around the world would
and so culture is biologically behave in the same way. This is
determined and therefore so is our because other than the external
human behaviour physical difference between humans,
the actual biological difference
between people from different parts of
the world is tiny. However,
anthropologists show that people
behave differently in different societies.
FOR NURTURE AGAINST NURTURE
- Nature only has reflexive influence on
behaviour but culture determines all
other types of behaviour – social
constructs
- Feral children is proof that nurture
effects behaviour as if behaviour was
determined by nature why would
social environment effect behaviour if
its already genetic and pre-
determined. – Douglas Candland
(1996) feral children internalise and
imitate behaviour of the animals they
have spent time with
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