PSYCH 3AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Age Segregation, Shyness, Collectivism
20 Mar 2019
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Teens and community organizations: help teens identify with common good, experience with equality, democratic procedures, learning to put organization"s goals first, need to bargain, compromise with others, teen organizations affected by community"s values, downside of playing to win . What is culture: shared norms, beliefs, attitudes, values, and behaviours, transmitted from one generation to another. Individuals differ in degree of adherence: tight cultures enforce strict conformity, loose cultures tolerant of deviations, ethnocentrism: interpreting world from own culture"s viewpoint. Psychology and culture: differences between canadian and chinese children, shyness and modesty valued among chinese children, cross-cultural research, caution interpreting cross-cultural studies, same meaning, tendency to conclude better than rather than different . Individualism and collectivism: two broad worldviews embodied in different cultures. Individualist: people independent, with own rights, goals: valued traits assertiveness, achievement, self-expression, collectivist: people interdependent, priority to group goals, valued traits cooperativeness, obedience, self-control, societies may contain elements of both worldviews.
