Sociology / Unit 4 Soc 0493 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Nature and Nurture
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The idea
The nature-nurture question asks how far human behavior is shaped by inheritance and how far by social learning; sociology studies the second without denying the first.
In practice
Twin studies find both a heritable component and large differences traced to upbringing.
Where people slip
The evidence supports interaction, and the framing as a contest is itself the error.
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