Hereditary Personality

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Abstract The nature of the relationship between the body, mind, soul, and the Environment is, at worst, confusion, and, at best, a thrilling intricacy. Although hereditary & environment has always been a deciding factor in determining our future, yet majority of us hardly even bothered to look over these factors. In this assignment I am trying to develop my understanding about how hereditary & environment has affected the people around me and referring to some journals in order to highlight the theoretical part as well. I have tried to draw a conclusion based on my personal and professional experience. Defining Hereditary Introduction According to Carey & Di Lalla in their book published in year 1994, Heritability can be defined as…show more content…
The natural environment sets limits to the personality and also provides opportunities for its development. The social environment provides enough conditions for its proper expression. The family, the school, neighbourhood, friends, various persons in contract, social customs, practices, values, institutions etc. all effect an individual’s personality. The status of the child, young man, and adult, and old man in the family and in society is not the same. As a result of this differences a man’s temperament, attitudes, tendencies, ways of thinking, acting inclinations, and character, in brief, his personality is affected. In the same way, the status of the person in places like school, office, occupation etc. effects his behavior to a great…show more content…
He begin by talking about the role of parents in human behavior. His first question is how important are parents? Generally, in most corners of the culture we relegate enormous power and influence to parents in determining the direction and outcome of the development of their children. For many parents, this requisite and assumption is often fraught with ambivalence. On the one hand, it is an endorsement of the power and necessity of the parental role and brings with it not only responsibility but the possibility of contributing to the well-being of family, community, and society. On the other hand, the obligation for shaping the malleable stuff of childhood into a virtuous, competent adult figure is, at the least, a daunting prospect. And should one’s child begin to show signs of faltering, rebelliousness, failure, or any number of other human frailties, parents are apt (and their neighbors, too) to blame
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