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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.
NATURE
NURTURE
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.