PSYC14H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Egalitarianism, Reference Group, Fatalism
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Before we begin doing anything about the research we should develop knowledge about the culture we are trying to study. You can do this by reading about the culture through reading ethnographies, which are written by anthropologists. Try to find out the foundation of that culture, what do they eat, what art they have etc. You can talk to people from that culture, find out how they see things. You can ask questions, and learn things first hand. You need to get a general field of the things that are most interesting to you. They are concerns about biases from being too close to the groups of interest. In contrast anthropologists themselves on getting highly invested and involved. They approach based in truly experiencing the culture. There is a contrast between psychologists and anthropologist, is that anthropologist are more invested, while psychologists mainly observe. Maybe our ideas are being merges, the multicultural cultured may be one in the same.
