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Socialisation, Culture and Identity

Nature, nurture and feral children

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The nature–nurture debate, sex and gender, the feral children Genie, Oxana Malaya, and Kamala and Amala, and Margaret Mead's three New Guinea societies.

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What is the nature side of the nature–nurture debate?

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What is the nurture side of the nature–nurture debate?

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What is the difference between sex and gender?

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    What is the nature side of the nature–nurture debate?

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    The nature view holds that human behaviour and identity are mainly shaped by biology and genes. Behaviour is seen as inborn rather than learned.

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    What is the nurture side of the nature–nurture debate?

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    The nurture view holds that behaviour and identity are mainly learned through socialisation. Most sociologists support the nurture side of the debate.

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    What is the difference between sex and gender?

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    Sex refers to the biological differences between males and females. Gender refers to the social expectations of how men and women should behave.

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    Why do sociologists see gender as learned rather than inborn?

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    Expectations of masculine and feminine behaviour vary between cultures and change over time. Sociologists argue that a purely biological trait would not vary in this way.

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    What are feral children?

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    Feral children are children who have grown up with little or no human contact. Some feral children were isolated by adults, and others are said to have lived among animals.

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    Who was Genie?

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    Genie was an American girl found in 1970 at the age of 13. Genie's father had kept her tied to a chair in a small room for most of her childhood.

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