It is parent-teacher conference day at Littleton Elementary School. Jimmy's teacher is anxious to meet his parents and discuss h
is 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
Nature versus nurture is a debate in psychology. Nature refers to the <u>effect of biological and genetic predispositions on out characteristics</u>, while Nurture refers to the e<u>ffect of learning and environment</u> on us. Here, Jimmy’s father is talking about biological impacts that is <u>nature</u>.
