FRHD 3040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Edward Burnett Tylor, Cultural Psychology, Developmental Psychology

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 3040
• Professor: David Green

Document Summary

Frhd3040 lecture 5 cultural perspective on parenting. Defining culture: polysemous (about the meaning of words, of many senses - when a word pr phrase has several meanings) term, historical background : stems from "cultivation" (producing or developing) France in the 18th century single term culture (sense of training or refinement of the mind or taste_ Late 19th century anthropologists edward tylor referred to culture as a complex whole (knowledge, beliefs and any other capacities) "cultural psychology is a study of the mental life of individuals in relation to the symbolic and behavioural inheritances of a particular cultural communities: there is always both types of inheritances, symbolic, behavioural. Some group of people who belong together, shared features. Semiotic (sign) mediation, part of the system of organized psychological functions (inter and intrapersonal) Types of cultures: personal: cultural developmental psychology as process focused, personal culture.