PSYC 307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Bsc Young Boys, Bisexuality, Heterosexuality
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Information- any kind of idea, belief, technology, habit or practice that is required through learning from others. A particular group of individuals- people who are existing in some kind of shared context. Mind operates independently of the content it is thinking. Cultural meanings are thus entangled with the ways that the mind operates an we cannot consider the mind separate from its culture. Brain continues to change and grow and rewrite themselves in response to their experiences. One cultural practice that has persisted since their warring days: their initiation practises to transform young boys into men. Piercing the septum of their nose and thrashing boys with sticks. Jerungdu: physical strength and supreme essence of maleness. Born without any jerungdu, they get it through semen. Homosexuality, bisexuality and heterosexuality are universal and natural stages in life. Accessibility universal: exist in all cultures, is used to solve the same problem across cultures, and is accessible to the same degree across cultures.
