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Assess the nature-nurture debate in relation to genders The nature vs. nurture debate on whether it is biology or the environment that causes human beings to choose certain roles and lifestyles is a perennial controversy in sociology, but since the seventies the debate has been extended to whether nurture, i.e. culture, can override biology. This is what I hope to discuss in my essay. In order for me to do this, I will need to construct an argument from at least two points of view, the Socio-biologist's point of view and the Socio-constructionist's point of view. I will then discuss how biology and the environment play their part in gender. What is gender difference, and where does it come from? The answers to such questions can be placed along a continuum, according to the importance they attach to biology in explaining gender difference. At one end of the continuum, biological determinists...

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