Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 82: Subculture, British National Vegetation Classification, Consumerism
2 Oct 2016
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Culture and Society
• Culture is way of life shared by group of individuals – the knowledge, beliefs and values that
bind a society together. Very diverse, can include artwork, language, and literature.
o Ways of of thinking, behaving, and feeling connected to a shared knowledge of a society
and allow members of the society to gain meaning from object and ideas around them.
• Society is the way people organize themselves – bunch of people who live together in a specific
geographic area, and interact more with each other than outsiders. Share a common culture
over time.
• Culture = rules that guide way people live, and society = structure that provides organization for
people.
o Society includes institutions, ex. family, education, politics, which all meet basic human
needs. Society provides structure. Groups of people.
▪ Analogy: The hardware on a phone, the actual phone/phone case
o Culture provides guidelines for living. Culture is learned, reshaped from generation to
generation. Culture makes a society run. Rules and input that allow society to run. Way
of life of people.
▪ Aalog: softare or apps o a phoe a’t phsiall e touhed ad are
constantly being updated.
o Need human ideas from culture to allow a society to work.
▪ Analogy: need apps to allow a phone be useful
o Culture and society need to both exist to function
Overview of Culture
• Society is a group of people and culture talks about rules and instructions within a society that
teach them how to live.
• Culture: idea/things passed on between generations in society - Knowledge, beliefs, values,
language, and customs. Varies as we travel around the globe.
o Differences in culture around the globe:
▪ Ex: America toothpaste/toothbrush and other cultures use twigs from trees
(African cultures)
▪ People sleep in beds while others sleep on animal skins or mats
▪ English – 500M speakers, Chinese- 1B speakers, Hindi – 480M speakers. 400M
Spanish speakers around the world (official language of 20 countries)
▪ Many like meat and vegetables, while others eat tofu and grasshoppers.
▪ Ways of greeting differ, ex. In Japan they bow, and depth of bow is defined by
relative status. And in Europe men and women kiss on both cheeks.
▪ Each social unit has a unique way of life due to differences in culture
o Culture provides guidelines for actions and interactions within a society.
• 4 main points of culture
o 1. People share culture in society: All people share culture with others in their society,
provides rules and expectations for carrying out daily rituals and interactions.
o 2. Culture is adaptive – it evolves over time and adaptive.
▪ Noral i huter/gathers ooperatiit eouraged differet tha toda’s
information/technology age (individualism/competition).
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Culture and society: culture is way of life shared by group of individuals the knowledge, beliefs and values that bind a society together. Share a common culture over time: culture = rules that guide way people live, and society = structure that provides organization for people, society includes institutions, ex. family, education, politics, which all meet basic human needs. Groups of people: analogy: the hardware on a phone, the actual phone/phone case, culture provides guidelines for living. Culture is learned, reshaped from generation to generation. Rules and input that allow society to run. Spanish speakers around the world (official language of 20 countries: many like meat and vegetables, while others eat tofu and grasshoppers, ways of greeting differ, ex. In japan they bow, and depth of bow is defined by relative status. People share culture in society: all people share culture with others in their society, provides rules and expectations for carrying out daily rituals and interactions: 2.
