PSYC14H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Enculturation, Acculturation, Normal Distribution
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We cultivate ourselves to become the best human being we can be (closer to a god/deity) Culture is a collective programming of the mind that distinguishes the members of one group/category of ppl from another (variation btn groups; there are differences) Is culture unique to humans? no: primates, crows, ants, bees ie crows use tools (stick) to dig out insects, humans interact w environment, ecocultural components. Culture is both constrained & shaped by a groups habitat: laggings emulation. 3. transmission to others: types of transmission vertical. Most present; from one gen to another gen. Oblique across gen using social institutions school adult to child: enculturation. Process of transmitting cultural elements to others in ones own community, serves as a source of continuity. Parents share to kids, kids grow and pass on to their: acculturation kids from outside a persons own cultural group, serves as a source of discontinuity immigration, colonialism going from one familiar culture to another unfamiliar culture.
