How far is Agression Socially Constructed?

In an analysis to this question we will begin by looking at, in brief, culture. Culture has been referred to as the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving (Samovar & Porter 1994). It has been argued that culture in …

…through a series of social and individual processes. None of the theories agree on exact explanations of aggressive behaviour, and none are able to predict it. However, they all seem to acknowledge that biological, environmeltal and social influences inteact to produce particular behaviour in certain individuals. We can therefore say that aggression is bith genetic and socially constructed, the extent to which one influence is greater than the other is a matter of ongoing discussion.