In this essay I am going to discuss the influence that structure and agency, nature and nature have on people by using key debates from the mixed up brothers of Bogota, I will point out my position with regards to the debates and also show the extent to which I am in agreement with the arguments of the author of the new york times magazine as well as the authors she cites.
According to Antony Giddens, structure is what gives form and shape but is not in itself form and shape, this is evident in that even though the mixed up brothers of Bogota were raised in different families, the outcome of upbringing played different roles or produced different results on the identical twins, for example, the structure in which Carlos and Jorge grew up allowed them to do good in life, Carlos worked at an accounting firm and was completing a degree and Jorge worked at strycon an engineering firm, while William and Wilber were both working at a butcher. Giddens goes so far as to say that structure exist through activities of human agents, that is it can be seen in the type of relationship the mixed up brothers of Bogota had with their family and particularly their…show more content… this argument is in support of a duality between nature and nurture, it views both nature and nurture as playing a role in the determination of human charecteristics. George Mead argued that it is the sicial process itself that is responsible for the appearence of the self, which shows the relationship between nature and
