The Nature Approach

The Nature Approach

There are two ways in which sociologists study human behavior.   The Nature approach and the Nurture approach.  
The Nature approach has many claims.   One is; the whole universe is deterministic and follows unavoidable sequences of cause, leading to effect.   What this generally means is that all the events in the world that occur are pre-determined.   By what you ask?   Nature (laws of physics, for example).   Another claim of the Nature Approach is that man is like a puppet on strings of nature.   If one wants to control man, all one has to do is find the strings.   This can only be done if it is for the well being of man.   Anything that man is driven to do is because of mechanics of nature; there is simply no such thing as free will.   Above all, even human thought is caused and is mere epiphenomenon, which is a secondary and inconsequential effect of a main event.   Any thought in which man has, are not their own thoughts, but just a part of nature.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, there is the Nurture approach. For centuries, conventional wisdom has held that parental nurturing will definitively shape a human's personality and behavior.   According to believers of the Nurture approach, it's the assumption that what makes human beings turn out the way they do, aside from their genes, the environmental part of human development, is the experiences they have in society, and in particular the experiences they have with the people they encounter.
The origins of the nurture approach are stemmed from the studies of Copernicus and Galileo.   Galileo was an Italian astronomer, natural philosopher, and one of the central architects of modern science.   In his Two Chief World Systems, he set forth the idea that the sun was the center of the universe, rather than the earth.   Forced to recant and forbidden to teach or talk about his views, Galileo is said to have muttered in the stillness of his room, 'Still it turns' in reference to the rotation of the...