The Purpose Of Socialization: The Three Layers Of Culture

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According to the Oxford Dictionary culture means: “The ideas, customs and social behaviour of a particular group of people or society.” The characteristics of culture are norms an values. Cultures do not only differ in time but it is also a variation by each generation or place. Most of the countries nowadays are populated by migrants, because of this the culture has been influenced by the inhabitants that make up the country. This way, you get a multicultural society like we have in the Netherlands. This is also the part where socialisation takes place. Socialisation is an activity of mixing socially with others. The purpose of socialisation is that an individual fits in his environment.

There are three layers in culture. The first layer …show more content…

According to the Oxford Dictionary, nature means: “Inborn or hereditary characteristics as an influence on or determinant of personality” and according to the Oxford Dictionary, nurture means: “Upbringing, education, and environment, contrasted with inborn characteristics as an influence on or determinant of personality.”

Before you are even born you could have predispositions for certain characteristics, for instance happiness. Imagine a gene which has 2 variants, a long gene and a short gene. If you have the long gene you have predispositions to be happy sooner and with the other gene you have predispositions to be sad sooner. If you have the predispositions to be happy than it does not have to be that you will be a happy person. If you live in a situation where you do not come to your right, for example when there are a lot of negative people around you. In this situation you will not be the happy person, you could have been so your nature does not express your nurture but it could be the other way around too. You could have the prepositions to be sad but if you have positive people around you and you will come to you right, you will be the happy …show more content…

In these type of studies, identical twins were used, because they have the same genes (nature). They were then separated, so that they grew up in different environments (nurture). By comparing the two for a specific trait, it was possible to look which was right: nature or nurture. For example, they could look at obesity by comparing identical twins with non-identical twins. A battle of half a century came to an end, the research of 14.5 million pairs of twins concluded it is a draw. According to the data both have as much influence as the other. There is overwhelming evidence that nature and nurture can influence traits and diseases.

Jonathan Haidt is a Jewish man who grew up in New York. He studied psychology and philosophy, he worked as an assistant in university, researched morality in India for 3 months and won an award with it. Later on he dived in to a new project: positive morality of people. He’s also writing books about his findings.
His research on morality has led to publications and positive effect in four primary areas, these are: moral disgust, moral elevation, moral foundation theory and the social intuitionist model. His research is about why morality can differ so much across cultures, there are as well several similarities. There are several reason why there are conflicts between different cultures but these 5 have the best evidence and

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