PSYCO341 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Socratic Method, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Psychology
8 Sep 2016
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People seem to do things in patterned ways. There conduct is learned, or acquired rather than wired in (evolutionary). These patterns are passed on (with mods) with each generation. Development occurs when we take on this culture. Most skills and talents have been taught (think writing, not biological, yet we all can do it as a matter of course). Reading is the same way, we can do it without thinking, in the same matter that we can recognize faces. They both become second nature, and this is culture. We also have the unique power to teach these skills to pass them down. This idea of improving things over generations can only occur due the way we can preserve knowledge and improve rather than relearn. Culture is a pattered way of thinking, feeling and reacting, acquired and transmitted via symbols. Traditions, norms, values, music, art, food, ect. are all components, and symbols that make up the larger culture category.
