Looking at the nature nurture debate, what are the stregnths and weakness?
Strength of Nurture I think if individual personalities and behaviour are primarily shaped by nurture that is by parenting, experience and education it holds that beliefs, culture, traditions, values, and behaviour could be molded by simply providing the “correct” environment during childhood and early adulthood. Parents could be trained, and schooling and environment controlled by the reigning authority. Strength of Nature On the other hand, I believe if personalities and behaviours are secondarily shaped by our genes e.g., if nature rules, parenting, education and training can only be effective in changing people’s personalities, and behaviour. The model society would have to be constructed around human nature, rather than human nurture modelled to the desired social model. Weakness of Nurture I believe individual’s personality and behaviour is primarily shaped by nature. For, instance as we were developing before birth, we inherited twenty three chromosomes from each parent and ther
