Weaknesses

• Nature and nurture :(

  • Considers both nature and nuture

  Nature: internal processes

  Nuture: Schemas

  • Fails to consider important elements like roles of genes and cultural factors (Piaget failure to consider role of culture in thinking development)

  THEREFORE: although interactionist still actively excludes other factors
• Deterministic :(

  • Suggests we have no control or free will
  • Determind via our schemas acquired by social interactions leading to stereotypes and may determine how to interpret situations
  • Individuals not accountable and as a result no free well
• Mechanically reductionist

  • Breaks humans down to being machine robots
  • Ignores complexities of human behaviour like emotions and thoughts

  EX: Mental illness, depressed individuals having irrational thoughts can be changed but the cause is usually significant life events, changing thinking does not alter environment

  THEREFORE: weakness as ignores complexities and reduces us down to computers
• Nomothetic :(

  • Nomothetic
  • Generalised its assumptions are applicable to all people
  • Ignores individual differences