Question

It is parent-teacher conference day at Littleton Elementary School. Jimmy's teacher is anxious to meet his parents and discuss his habit of disrupting the class. When the teacher expresses her concern that Jimmy is not being socialized properly, his dad insists that he was the same way at Jimmy's age and that disrupting the class is natural for the children in his family. Jimmy's teacher and father are arguing about which fundamental sociological theory? a. Kohlberg's theory of Moral Development
b. George Herbert Mead's theory of self-development
c. Nature vs. Nurture
d. Freud's theory of self-development

Answer 1

Answer:

C.nature vs. nurture

Explanation:

Nature versus nurture is a debate in psychology. Nature refers to the effect of biological and genetic predispositions on out characteristics, while Nurture refers to the effect of learning and environment on us. Here, Jimmy’s father is talking about biological impacts that is nature.