Nature Vs Nurture

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27/10/2011 Evaluate the view that human behaviour is largely cultural Society is not so much established by conquest as by collusion (Berger.P.1967) Munford khan defines the concept of self as ‘denoting the core of the personality system organised around its awareness of itself and its conscious and unconscious towards its most virtual interests and values, involving identity, status, commitment and desire. Society today is so different to sometime ago. It was more or less written in stone that women were the child bearing home carers, and the men were the bread winners. Some of the early sociologists believed that our gender was inherited through our genes. Feminists argued that these findings were all down to men carrying out experiments on men. These day’s men take on more of an active role in the household. Women work while the men stay at home or both will carry out an equal share of the roles. ‘Norms are values put into practice’. They govern the way we are supposed to behave in society. For example the way we eat food, behave on first dates, go to the toilet, and wait for the bus and so on. There are norms that govern the male and female behaviour, for example what is Masculine and what is Feminine. Values are beliefs that something is desirable and worthwhile. For example, marriage, family, life, wealth, property and achievement. Socialisation is the key to social cohesion. It gives us our role in society: i.e. teacher, student, and parent. It is our function in society. Socialisation can be divided into three stages. The first stage involves the young child and parents in the family (primary stage). Second stage involves the school and third is adulthood. Secondary socialisation is internalised from mass media, schools and peer groups. Items A and B both show different examples of nurture. Both of these examples are of learnt behaviour. Although
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