My passion is in how individuals function within the clockwork of society, by studying the behaviour of individuals has encouraged my interest to study both society and crime and how they interconnect. Psychology and criminology will allow for me to further expand my interest in these two areas.
The highly popular debate on whether a criminal is created through "nature or nurture" has sparked my interest as I believe that there are many underlying factors that go into making a ‘criminal’ and labels that are given to individuals can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy. Personally, the nurture argument is more favourable but arguably nature does play some part as Fuller’s study ‘Black girls in London’ has demonstrated that the labels given are merely just a social construction. It has given me reassurance that nothing is as set in stone as it seems to be, you don’t have to live up to anyone’s expectation of you.
Social construction and the way it affects people is very evident in the public eye, social sciences accompany one another. Grady Stiles, known as the Lobster boy, described as a very violent man, also had a deformity of ectrodactyly. It can be debated his criminal behaviour was caused by his genetics or the negative labels given to him while he was working in the circus. Labeled as ‘freak’ or ‘abnormal’, how …show more content…
The fusion of societal and psychological factors must coincide if society is to function correspondingly as indicated through proper primary socialisation, love and care the effects of maternal deprivation can be reversed. As shown in the Czech twins case study conducted by Koluchová. My understanding of society has broadened as I am able to take different ideologies and theories from different subjects to explain issues in more
The highly popular debate on whether a criminal is created through "nature or nurture" has sparked my interest as I believe that there are many underlying factors that go into making a ‘criminal’ and labels that are given to individuals can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy. Personally, the nurture argument is more favourable but arguably nature does play some part as Fuller’s study ‘Black girls in London’ has demonstrated that the labels given are merely just a social construction. It has given me reassurance that nothing is as set in stone as it seems to be, you don’t have to live up to anyone’s expectation of you.
Social construction and the way it affects people is very evident in the public eye, social sciences accompany one another. Grady Stiles, known as the Lobster boy, described as a very violent man, also had a deformity of ectrodactyly. It can be debated his criminal behaviour was caused by his genetics or the negative labels given to him while he was working in the circus. Labeled as ‘freak’ or ‘abnormal’, how …show more content…
The fusion of societal and psychological factors must coincide if society is to function correspondingly as indicated through proper primary socialisation, love and care the effects of maternal deprivation can be reversed. As shown in the Czech twins case study conducted by Koluchová. My understanding of society has broadened as I am able to take different ideologies and theories from different subjects to explain issues in more