Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Shakers, Cultural Psychology, Grammatical Gender
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Cross cultural psychology is the study of similarities and differences in the individual psychological functioning of various cultural and ethnocultural groups; of ongoing changes in variables reflecting such functioning; and of the relationships of sociocultural, ecological, and biological variables. It is a branch of psychology that looks at how cultural factors influence human behaviour. We have a tendency to think that culture exists in other environments, and not our own. Culture refers to the widely shared customs, beliefs, norms, institutions, and other products of a community that are transmitted socially across generations. It is a broad subject; it includes political ideals, technology, attitudes about time, eat habits, modes of dress, art, music, unspoken rules about sexuality; it"s how we understand the world that we live in. It"s reflected in our history, it"s how we express our ideas, etc. Through culture, we develop a sense of belonging; we develop the ability to relate with each other.
