-DebateCultural/social/environmental factors/variables vs biological/genetic/hereditary factors

(nurture)
(nature) (genes) (genetic inheritance)
>Conclusion: Cultural and social factors are responsible for human bad behaviors (rather than
biological factors).
Anomie or Strain theory, Robert Merton proposes that people are delinquent because they can't
achieve their goals using conventional means (so they turn to illegal means)
-1955 (criminologist) Albert Cohen states that disadvantages faced by lower-class men cause status
frustration or strain leading to delinquency
-1992 (sociologist) Robert Agnew insists that anomie or strain theory can be used to explain crime
and deviancy
Some commit crimes because they are responding to a social situation Robert Merton
[Even gender roles are cultural creations] Margaret Mead once states that gender is NOT based on
biological differences between sexes, but rather reflects the conditioning of different societies
Michel Foucault claims that sometimes people misbehave, because they want resist the power
imposed by the higher class or authority, which causes them stress and pressure (and is connected to
the Anomie and Strain theory discussed before)
Where there is power, there is resistance Foucault

Where there is a counter argument, there is always a rebuttal

We acknowledge that the fact cannot be denied. Fact is fact.
However, what we are going to do now is just to point out that your facts are weak, our facts
are stronger using facts, evidences, statistics, and examples.
The nature versus nurture debate is one of the oldest issues in psychology. The debate centers
on the relative contributions of genetic inheritance and environmental factors to human
development.
Counter
[Some philosophers such as Plato and Descartes suggested that certain things are
inborn, or that they occur naturally regardless of environmental influences. Nativists take
the position that all or most behaviors and characteristics are the result of inheritance.
Advocates of this point of view believe that all of our characteristics and behaviors are the
result of evolution. Genetic traits handed down from parents influence the individual
differences that make each person unique.]
My point
Other well-known thinkers such as John Locke believed in what is known as tabula rasa,
which suggests that the mind begins as a blank slate. According to this notion,
everything that we are and all of our knowledge is determined by our experience.

Empiricists take the position that all or most behaviors and characteristics result from
learning. Behaviorism is a good example of a theory rooted in empiricism. The
behaviorists believe that all actions and behaviors are the results of conditioning.
Theorists such as John B. Watson believed that people could be trained to do and
become anything, regardless of their genetic background.

One example of an empiricist theory within psychology is Albert Bandura's social learning
theory. According to the theory, people learn by observing the behavior of others. In his
famous Bobo doll experiment, Bandura demonstrated that children could learn aggressive
behaviors simply by observing another person acting aggressively.
(http://psychology.about.com/od/nindex/g/nature-nurture.htm )

http://www.simplypsychology.org/naturevsnurture.html