Nature Nurture

Starter

• Write down the behaviour and characteristics you think is ‘natural’ for males & ‘natural’ for females

Learning Objectives

• Know what is meant by the terms ‘nature’ & ‘nurture.

• Understand that there is a debate over ‘nature or nurture’

• Be able to identify where sociology stands in the debate.

• In Sociology, we are looking at human behaviour.

• Human behaviour is the term we use that refers to all of the things that people do.

Nature

• There are many ways of explaining why certain people do things in certain ways.

• Some biologists think that people behave as they do because they are animals who act according to animal instincts.

• This is known as a Nature theory of human behaviour.

Nurture

• Most sociologists believe that people do certain things and think certain things because they are taught to do them.

• This is known as a Nurture theory of human behaviour.

• Sociologists think that people act as they do because they learned to be the people that they are.

You decide

• Do you think you are who you are due to Nature or Nurture?

• Go to the left if you think Nature (you were born the way you are)

• Go to the right if you think Nurture (you learned to be who you are)

Group work

• On sugar paper draw a spider diagram showing what you gain from nature or nurture.

NATURENURTURE

Plenary

• What does nature mean?

• What does nurture mean?

• Which does sociology believe is the most important?

Learning Objectives

• Know what is meant by the terms ‘nature’ & ‘nurture.

• Understand that there is a debate over ‘nature or nurture’

• Be able to identify where sociology stands in the debate.