GMS 522 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Newbury Park, London, Sage Publications, Collectivism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 522
• Professor: Carlyle Farrell

Document Summary

Culture is defined as an integrated system of learned behaviour patterns that are distinguishing characteristics of the members of any given society. Culture includes everything that a group thinks, says, does, and makes- its customs, language, material artifacts, and shared systems of attitudes and feelings. Culture is learned, shared, and transmitted from one generation to the next. Culture is primarily passed on by parents to their children but also by: social organizations, special-interest groups, the government, schools, the church. E(cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:455)o(cid:374)e is e(cid:374)(cid:272)ultu(cid:396)ed i(cid:374)to a pa(cid:396)ti(cid:272)ula(cid:396) (cid:272)ultu(cid:396)e you lea(cid:396)(cid:374) ho(cid:449) to (cid:271)e ca(cid:374)adia(cid:374), Problems may arise when a person encultured in one culture has to adjust to a different culture (e. g. become acculturated) The (cid:271)elief that o(cid:374)e"s o(cid:449)(cid:374) eth(cid:374)i(cid:272) g(cid:396)oup o(cid:396) (cid:272)ultu(cid:396)e is supe(cid:396)io(cid:396) to that of othe(cid:396)s. It causes people to view other cultures in terms of their own, causing them to overlook important human and environmental differences among cultures.