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Reputed Changes in Social Scientists' Sympathies Regarding the Nature-Nurture Controversy: An Exploratory Comparison1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

Lee Ellis
Lee Ellis*
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Department of Sociology, Minot State College, Minot, North Dakota 58701
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Probably the most enduring question throughout the history of the social sciences pertains to how much human social behavior is a product of evolutionary, genetic, nonsocial, “natural” sorts of variables as opposed to learned sociocultural, environmental, “nurturing” variables (Hammond, 1983). Regardless of where individual social scientists themselves happen to have settled on this issue, many have offered an opinion about the prevailing position of social scientists generally on this question at various points in social science history. The present study compares these opinions, especially as they pertain to the twentieth century.

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Research in Progress
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Politics and the Life Sciences , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , February 1984 , pp. 194 - 197
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Copyright © Association for Politics and the Life Sciences 

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