Sociology-Individual Difference

Running head: SOCIOLOGY-INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCE
SOCIOLOGY-INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCE
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SOCIOLOGY-INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCE1
Introduction
 Majority of the individuals tend to incline towards interpreting human behaviour in
relation to personality traits (Ford 2019).
 These traits are characteristics patterns of thinking, feeling and perceiving things which
show propensity to be constant over time and unswerving across circumstances.
The following paper will argue on the way personality traits tend to change over the life span.
Discussion
 Effects of personality individualities on human behaviour are easier to observe when
individuals are studied constantly across range of situations (Roberts 2018).
 In the view of authors, on any occasion, individuals’ behavioural traits are shaped by
temperament and the situation in addition to other reasons related to individuals’ current
thoughts, feelings and goals.
 Although personality traits are considerably consistent over time, they tend to gradually
alter across the lifespan. These changes however are considered to be for the betterment
of individuals.
 Studies of Roberts (2018) have claimed that majority of adults have become more
agreeable, reliable and emotionally irrepressible as they age. However, these deviations
tend to explain across years or periods instead of days or weeks and intense changes in
temperament are relatively infrequent.
 According to Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory, personality essentially develops from the
interactions amongst what has been proposed as three major structures of the human
mind namely, id, ego, and superego (Bollas 2017). To Freud’s understanding, the nature
of conflicts and clashes amongst id, ego, and superego alter over the time as individuals
mature from child to adult.