Sociology
‘’Children require only culture to become fully human, genes mean nothing’’. How far do you agree with this statement?.
Culture is a certain type of civilisation of shared meanings, norms, values and roles of a society or group of a certain race or nation. Culture is in support of the nurture side of the nature-nurture argument. The nurture side of the debate states that people are influenced with how they dress, to even their actions by the surroundings they are brought up in as well as the people in their lives. However the nature side of the nature-nurture debate believes that people are how they are because of their DNA and genetics, therefore their personality and everything they do is believed to be already genetically wired into them from the moment they are born. Therefore the nature-nurture debate is the argument between what affects how people live their lives, how they look, their beliefs, their personality etc.
Children require culture to become fully human due to the fact that when in certain cases children were not given primary and secondary socialisation by humans and instead by animals, they did not know how to behave like humans. For example John Ssabunnya ‘monkey boy’ who was abandoned at the age of 2 and the only socialisation for him was with monkeys. Due to the fact that he only had limited socialisation and only with monkeys, he was found doing everything that only monkeys would do at the age of 14 was when he was discovered. Therefore even though his genetics meant he was human, the years of his life spent with the socialisation from monkeys, meant that when he was first found it seemed unreal that he was a human being. Likewise another case similar to this was when a Ukrainian girl who was discovered in the USA, who only had the socialisation of dogs. Therefore when discovered she could eat, wash etc as a dog would do and she wasn’t capable of doing any actions a normal human being would be able to as she lacked experience of love, human
Culture is a certain type of civilisation of shared meanings, norms, values and roles of a society or group of a certain race or nation. Culture is in support of the nurture side of the nature-nurture argument. The nurture side of the debate states that people are influenced with how they dress, to even their actions by the surroundings they are brought up in as well as the people in their lives. However the nature side of the nature-nurture debate believes that people are how they are because of their DNA and genetics, therefore their personality and everything they do is believed to be already genetically wired into them from the moment they are born. Therefore the nature-nurture debate is the argument between what affects how people live their lives, how they look, their beliefs, their personality etc.
Children require culture to become fully human due to the fact that when in certain cases children were not given primary and secondary socialisation by humans and instead by animals, they did not know how to behave like humans. For example John Ssabunnya ‘monkey boy’ who was abandoned at the age of 2 and the only socialisation for him was with monkeys. Due to the fact that he only had limited socialisation and only with monkeys, he was found doing everything that only monkeys would do at the age of 14 was when he was discovered. Therefore even though his genetics meant he was human, the years of his life spent with the socialisation from monkeys, meant that when he was first found it seemed unreal that he was a human being. Likewise another case similar to this was when a Ukrainian girl who was discovered in the USA, who only had the socialisation of dogs. Therefore when discovered she could eat, wash etc as a dog would do and she wasn’t capable of doing any actions a normal human being would be able to as she lacked experience of love, human