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Recap progress of nature/nurture debate

In workbooks Check your understanding A-E A) What is a debate? B) what is nature theory C) What is nurture theory D) Give one example of a nature explanation for male violence E) Give one example of a nurture explanation for male violence

Exam Question Explain the difference between nature and nurture theories of human behaviour (5)

Feral Children Monday 2nd October 2017

What happens to unsocialised children? Compulsory core: Lesson 7/12 GCSE Sociology What happens to unsocialised children? Compulsory core: Lesson 7/12 What am I going to learn? To understand that if children are not socialised, they can never behave fully as normal human beings Objectives of the lesson are: To recognise and give an example of the term feral child To identify why cases of feral children support the nurture theory. To apply this knowledge to an exam question on nature/nurture debate

Flipped learning… Feral Child Please watch and make notes on the following programme for homework and come prepared to discuss next Monday. Feral child https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cymZq1VblU0

In workbooks Check your understanding E-G A) What is a debate? B) what is nature theory C) Give one example of a nature explanation for male violence D) Give one example of a nurture explanation for male violence E) What historical evidence is there for nurture theory F) What anthropological evidence is there for nurture theory G) unsocialised children – e.g. feral children

Exam Question Explain why sociologists reject nature theories of behaviour.

Explain why sociologists reject nature theories of behaviour. There is evidence to support nature and nurture theories of human behaviour. However, sociologists say that the evidence supports nurture theories more than nature theories. They use 3 types of evidence: Historical evidence shows that people’s behaviour changes over time. This wouldn’t be true if it came naturally to them. Anthropological evidence shows that people’s behaviour varies from culture to culture. Children who have not been brought up correctly behave in a way that is very different to most humans. Children who have been brought up without human contact are known as unsocialised children. This would not happen if we just acted on instinct – something that animals and people do without learning or being taught to do it. There are cases of children being brought up by animals. These are feral children.

Scientists are very interested in feral children because they help us to understand the nature/nurture debate.

A feral child is... A human being who has never been socialised properly

Case study 1: Oxana Malaya We are going to watch a clip about Oxana Malaya. (make notes) Complete Oxana Malaya sheet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93HymGXC_wM Oxana Malaya

Case Study 2: Genie We are going to watch a clip about Genie. Make some notes about as you watch. What can we learn from Genie’s case? Genie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93HymGXC_wM

Draw the following table in your work book Name Dates Country How did they behave when found? What happened after they were found (if known)? Use the cards on your desk to complete the chart

A leopard-child was reported by EC Stuart Baker in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society (July 1920). The boy was stolen from his parents by a leopardess in the North Cachar Hills near Assam in about 1912, and three years later recovered and identified. “At the time the child ran on all fours almost as fast as an adult man could run, whilst in dodging in and out of bushes and other obstacles he was much cleverer and quicker. His knees had hard callosities on them and his toes were retained upright almost at right angles to his instep. The palms of his hands and pads of his toes and thumbs were also covered with very tough horny skin. When first caught, he bit and fought with everyone and any wretched village fowl which came within his reach was seized, torn to pieces and eaten with extraordinary rapidity.” The Leopard Boy

Kamala and Amala The most famous wolf-children are the two girls captured in October 1920 from a huge abandoned ant-hill squatted by wolves near Godamuri in the vicinity of Midnapore, west of Calcutta, by villagers under the direction of the Rev JAL Singh, an Anglican missionary. The mother wolf was shot. The girls were named Kamala and Amala, and were thought to be aged about eight and two. According to Singh, the girls had misshapen jaws, elongated canines, and eyes that shone in the dark with the peculiar blue glare of cats and dogs. Amala died the following year, but Kamala survived until 1929, by which time she had given up eating carrion, had learned to walk upright and spoke about 50 words.

The Wild Girl of Champagne The wild girl of Champagne had probably learned to speak before her abandonment, for she is a rare example of a wild child learning to talk coherently. Her diet consisted of birds, frogs and fish, leaves, branches and roots. Given a rabbit, she immediately skinned and devoured it. “Her fingers and in particular her thumbs, were extraordinarily large,” according to a contemporary witness, the famous scientist Charles Marie de la Condamine. She is said to have used her thumbs to dig out roots and swing from tree to tree like a monkey. She was a very fast runner and had phenomenally sharp eyesight. When the Queen of Poland, the mother of the French queen, passed through Champagne in 1737 to take possession of the Duchy of Lorraine, she heard about the girl and took her hunting, where she outran and killed rabbits.

In 1937 George Maranz described a visit to a Turkish lunatic asylum in Bursa, Turkey, where he met a girl who had allegedly lived with bears for many years. Hunters in a mountainous forest near Adana had shot a she-bear and then been attacked by a powerful little “wood spirit”. Finally overcome, this turned out to be a human child, though utterly bear-like in her voice, habits and physique. She refused all cooked food and slept on a mattress in a dark corner of her room. Investigations showed that a two-year-old child had disappeared from a nearby village 14 years earlier, and it was presumed that a bear had adopted her. The Bear Girl

How would you use these case studies to “Explain two reasons why sociologists reject nature theories of human behaviour (4)”

Review your learning Feral children Can I explain what is meant by feral children? Can I describe cases of feral children? E.g. Oxana Can I discuss the nature v nurture debate in relation to feral children?

Check your understanding - Worksheet

Exam Practice This is to be completed in silence. Read through the text you have been given and then answer the questions in your book. Look at how much each question is worth. Use this to decide how much to write. S&C

Homework Nature/Nurture

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Reflection Produce five key points which summarise today’s learning

Plenary Look at your work and think what you could do to improve it. Look at your neighbour’s work, make one suggestion for improvement. Write down your personal target for improvement to your work.