PSYC14H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Baby Boomers, Acculturation, Ingroups And Outgroups

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20 Jun 2016
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Lecture 1: introduction to cross-cultural psychology (interweaving psychology & culture) Some of the various definitions of culture which may have some limitations and disagreements: Culture in its broadest sense is cultivated behaviour; that is the totality of a person"s learned, accumulated experience which is socially transmitted. Some of its symbols include a group"s skills, knowledge, attitudes, values, and motives. The meanings of the symbols are learned and deliberately perpetuated in a society through its institutions. Culture is the sum of the learned behaviour of a group of people that are generally considered to be the tradition of that people and are transmitted from generation to generation. Culture is a collective programming of the mind that distinguishes the members of one group or category of people from another. Culture can be finding meaning in different things (i. e symbols, painting your face, cultural garments, ex.

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