Nature vs Nurture

Using the article from the e-activity, identify the type of deviant behavior in which the individual engaged and specify three characteristics of the individual’s behavior. Next, explain whether the deviant behavior can be explained as biological or sociological (i.e., nature or nurture). Justify your position.

The article identified has focused on deviant behavior in youths within school settings. As such, it has been identified that such individuals indulge in various activities. The specific characteristics include drug use, bullying, and social media addiction. These were the three major deviant behaviors that the youths identified involved in that hindered their growth and development. These changes lean more towards nurture rather than nature as these are more sociological problems than biological (Karmanova et al., 2014). This is because these are issues that are not tied to the biological make-up of the youths but rather their upbringing. Drug use is brought about by poor parenting allowing access to drugs which often leads to drug abuse. When teenagers are not well parented on the dangers of drug use and access to drugs is limited, peer pressure and other forces are bound to make them engage in the behavior. In social media addiction, the lack of parental control or supervision over what their children are accessing on the internet is a major risk that makes most of them become addicted to these sites (Hanimoglu, 2018). Bullying is often a practice that is copied from the surroundings such that kids whose families are violent often become bullies. Clearly, it is a sociological problem, not a social one.

References

Hanimoglu, E. (2018). Deviant Behavior in School Setting. Journal of Education and Training Studies, 6(10), 133–141.

Karmanova, Z. A., Manashova, G. N., & Nefedova, O. A. (2014). Deviant Behavior Problem in Modern Society. Education & Science Without Borders, 5(9), 94–96.

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Nature vs. Nurture

Please respond to the following:

• Using the article from the e-activity, identify the type of deviant behavior in which the individual engaged and specify three characteristics of the individual’s behavior. Next, explain whether the deviant behavior can be explained as biological or sociological (i.e., nature or nurture). Justify your position.
  

  Nature vs Nurture

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• Be sure to include a minimum of two outside sources for your post using APA OR SWS format, in-text citations, and a reference list.
• MUST use APA format or SWS which requires in-text citations and a reference list (examples of APA links are available under Course Info).
• Use sources from within the last 7 to 10 years.
• Refrain from personal pronouns (“I”, “me”, “we”, etc.) in your initial posts.
• Be sure to answer what is asked of you thoroughly.

E-ACTIVITY

• Use the Internet or the Strayer Library (https://research.strayer.edu) to research one article from within the last three years that discusses an individual engaging in deviant behavior. Be prepared to discuss.