PSYC14H3 Lecture Notes - Acculturation, Enculturation
Document Summary
Development of morals, writing etc: culture consists of shared elements. If not, we are from very diff cultures. Just one way of defining this (many ways of looking at it: transmission to others. Horizontal peer to peer (social rejections, social popularity) Oblique comes from media, the system etc. Enculturation maintaining culture of origin (sharing recipes within members of one"s own community) Acculturation discontinuity (adapting to a new culture) Def of culture: consists of shared elemens, transmitted across time, emerges in adaptive environments. Def of culture itself changes among researchers: need to come up with common/ agreed upon defs. Boundaries of cultures are not clear: where does my culture start and your culture stop. Variability among indivs in same culture: have to find the avg (but can feel like stereotyping) Limitted access to a wide range of cultures: can"t travel around the globe all the time.
