PSYC 3350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Symbolic Interactionism, Celebrity Culture, Culture War
22 Feb 2017
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Norms; durkheim collective representation; mead significant symbols, shared meaning of things, symbolic interactionism; Culture capacity for constantly expanding the range and accuracy of one"s perception of meanings (dewey: democracy and education . Hofstede comparison of national cultures china and us (as ivs) Conclusion (methodology comments) (throughout note references to meaning, meaning systems, beliefs, values) Interpretations of situations in terms of meanings (hermeneutic) Universal laws, rather than patterns relative to time and place. Cause and effect, rather than other forms of relationships/patterns. Isolation of variables in labs, rather than natural observation. 3 approaches: cross-cultural , cultural , indigenous . Treating culture as a variable, external, envelope (internal processes) Psychology as a product of western culture an indigenous . Previously western psychologists thought they were studying the self. Names you will see again: hofstede, kagitcibasi, markus. Collectivist society more likely to study group variation in-groups. The construction of shared meaning cultural "s prime concern. History: how cross-cultural moved towards cultural and indigenous.
