PY1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Fuzzy Set, Cultural Psychology, Indigenous Psychology
14 Jun 2018
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Lecture 12: Intercultural Psychology in the Asia-Pacific
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Tuesday, 15 May 2018
2:04 pm
Definition of culture
• Difficult to define as the scope of culture is so broad
• Much of the difficulty stems from the different usages of the terms as it was increasingly
employed in the 19th century
• In 9152, the American anthropologists, Kroeber and Kluckhohn, critically reviewed concepts
and definitions of culture and compiled a list of 164 different definitions
Different definitions of culture:
• Culture is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom
and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society - Tyler 1870
• Culture is a collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one
group or category people from another - Hofstede (1994)
• …the set of attitudes, values, beliefs and behaviours shared by a group of people, but
different individual communicated from one generation to the next
• Culture is a fuzzy set of basic assumptions, orientations to life, beliefs, policies, procedures
and behavioural conventions that are shared by group of people, and that influences (but do
not determine) each members behaviour and his/her interpretations of the meaning other
people behaviour - Spencer
Key characteristics of culture
-manifested at different layers of depth
(a) observable artifacts
(b) values and
( c) basic underlying assumptions
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Document Summary
Difficult to define as the scope of culture is so broad. Much of the difficulty stems from the different usages of the terms as it was increasingly employed in the 19th century. In 9152, the american anthropologists, kroeber and kluckhohn, critically reviewed concepts and definitions of culture and compiled a list of 164 different definitions. Culture is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society - tyler 1870. Culture is a collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one group or category people from another - hofstede (1994) The set of attitudes, values, beliefs and behaviours shared by a group of people, but different individual communicated from one generation to the next. Manifested at different layers of depth (a) observable artifacts (b) values and ( c) basic underlying assumptions.
