Nature vs. Nurture..what sIde are you on?

Question

and pleae explain why. i agree with both, but i have to do a term paper and it has to be a persuasive essay and i was told not to agree with both.any help?!

Answer 1

Hmmm, I would have to say nature. Nurturing can calm the savage mind, but it will not necessarily "cure" the ills of the savage. Just my opinion

Answer 2

But....isn't the point of the essay that you're supposed to make up your mind based on the facts, not just arbitary conclusion that teaches you nothing?

Most sociologists these days agree that there's a little of both involved, although nurture probably in the majority of people is the overriding factor.

If conditions like schizophrenia or depression are involved of course those can have effects beyond what nurture would generally control, although there is certainly evidence that nurture can be the trigger for these effects even if the underlying brain chemisty exists. Schizophrenia and depression quite often don't trigger until teenage when other factors, mostly environmental might be the cause.

With that conclusion then you could argue that nurture is actually the more dominent force as it can both trigger underlying conditions caused by nature and in some cases actually cause those conditions to develop especially in early development.

Might give you something to go on...

Answer 3

Nurture.
Of course both influence a person's outcome, but I believe that the biggest contributor is Nurture. The reason is that the biggest influence on a person's outcome is his environment, and how he or she was raised. Most people who are raised from birth through age 5 were mainly exposed to their parents' speech. If their parents are a moron, the kids will talk like a moron, using poor grammar and unable to read. If they are then sent to a crappy school, they will continue to languish and not learn much due to their surroundings. If their friends are rotten slimeballs, they will most likely be a rotten slimeball too.
Now, you can take this same kid (same genetic material) and raise him or her properly, his parents read to them at night from a very early age, teach them proper grammar, and then send them to a good school, they will probably have a very successful life.
Of course there are exceptions - a ghetto thug can end up a brain surgeon one day, or someone raised properly may end up a prostitute , or a crack whore or in jail or even homeless.
But the exceptions are much more rare than the rule. Since you must pick one or the other, i would bet that Nurture would win out, statistically.
There were many studies done with identical twins seperated at birth. I can't remember what the results were though. I would start there with your research.

Answer 4

I was discussing this yesterday. Dependant upon personality type. Strong characters are very hard to cast to type, are contentious from childhood, and have an impact upon others, whereas lesser persons are greatly impressionable, are either easily mainpulated in the negative sense, or have the eability to merge in with any fraternity in the positive aspect.

Excellent nuture can override basal character traits, and although the few triumph despite their nurture, there are those whose indominatable and congenial natures can undergo immense hardship and remain erstwhile and relatively sane.

If the two comparisons were two families from similar backgrounds given two children both with opposing cahracters, two sets of twins preferable, one to an ill bred dysfunctional brood, and th eother to a professional couple shining with sobrierty, propriety, exemplary in conduct the pillars of their society...the the study would have a truer and more faithful outcome.

Answer 5

Without the natural ability (genetics) to gain language skills etc... nurture will not improve the ability to gain Independence in those situations. Hormones also play a role in the way peoples brain function works. (LAD) Language acquisition Device has to be used in a certain period of time (birth - puberty) in order to fully learn a language.
I hope that this is a little helpful. What I actually think is that both nature and nurture.play a huge role in the ability to fully function in society. I think that your assignment is a very tough and misdirected assignment!

Answer 6

I agree with you. A mixture of both would have to be what I think is best...But to solve your problem:

I suggest that you do some preliminary on both philosophie (or whatever they are) and see which one has more backround info.
The one that seems more interesting, or just plain has more information, pick that one.
I've had this issue before, and I actually ended up picking a topic that I didnt qite care for...but I ended up with a good grade becuase the thesis was well written and I proved my point with all of that information I found.

Hope it helps :D

Answer 7

Nature + Nurture = Life

Answer 8

hmm, i would take nature, i think nature has the cure for everything out there, we just arent able to find it yet, a walk by the woods can calm you and make you concentrate, seeing different things on it, can make u change on your point of view over world, i love nature

Answer 9

damn that's hard. i am in the middle of the road because it seems with any issue that's where the bulk of the research sits...that environment and genetics influence every aspect of us pretty much equally.
damn, i just don't know. sorry. i guess just pick one.