Nature versus nurture ultimately boils down to how organisms such as ourselves develop overtime. Whether our development is based off of our nature such as genes and variables out of our control or nurture such as how we are raised and the environment that we thrive and grow in. Psychologists have been able to narrow down the main factors of both nature and nurture in their debate and study of the growth and development of the human psyche. Nature is believed to be a predetermined course that overtime will rely on our genes and natural instincts to arrive at the destination that our internal and natural instincts had already decided for us. This being said Nature is believed to leave very little room for personal choice in or change in the
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The key to this theory is that our self image is not developed based off how people really perceive us but how how we ourself think that others view us, ultimately being we ourselves are the ones to determine our own images. The first stage of “looking-glass self- is how we imagine others see us, this stage is not based on facts but interpersonal beliefs and ultimately self image and esteem. Second stage is how we imagine others evaluation of what they view us as, yet again this stage is completely internal and really is a projection of internal views on oneself. Finally the third stage is then how we openly define ourselves due to these internal assumptions of how others view and evaluate us. The looking-glass perspective on behavioral development is rooted in our own views of oneself and is considered to be a ongoing cycle of evaluation with every encounter much like an interactionist …show more content…
The agent of school in terms of gender role socialization is based on how school is known to reinforce specific roles onto specific groups of children. With this being said schools are able to not only reinforce gender roles by what they teach each child but also classism, and ageism. The ideals of socialization specifically in schools seems to become minimized once technology has become more relevant, because much like conflict perspective socialization is used by the majority as its main source of development and information but with technology this broadens most peoples resources and abilities to learn and
The key to this theory is that our self image is not developed based off how people really perceive us but how how we ourself think that others view us, ultimately being we ourselves are the ones to determine our own images. The first stage of “looking-glass self- is how we imagine others see us, this stage is not based on facts but interpersonal beliefs and ultimately self image and esteem. Second stage is how we imagine others evaluation of what they view us as, yet again this stage is completely internal and really is a projection of internal views on oneself. Finally the third stage is then how we openly define ourselves due to these internal assumptions of how others view and evaluate us. The looking-glass perspective on behavioral development is rooted in our own views of oneself and is considered to be a ongoing cycle of evaluation with every encounter much like an interactionist …show more content…
The agent of school in terms of gender role socialization is based on how school is known to reinforce specific roles onto specific groups of children. With this being said schools are able to not only reinforce gender roles by what they teach each child but also classism, and ageism. The ideals of socialization specifically in schools seems to become minimized once technology has become more relevant, because much like conflict perspective socialization is used by the majority as its main source of development and information but with technology this broadens most peoples resources and abilities to learn and