PSYC14H3 Lecture Notes - Enculturation, Acculturation, Ethnocentrism
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Etiquettes morals and values, food, religion, customs, clothing, art, family, language, music, upbringing, roles, rules/norms, relationships, festivities, rituals, geography, nationality, traditions, race. There have been over 400 definitions of culture, no one can agree on what it is because it is very complex. Some people focus on symbolism, some on artifacts. Anthropologists, sociologists and psychologists all think of culture very differently. There are some commonalities with the definition. One is that humans interact with each other. This is the eco cultural components: culture is both constrained and shaped by a group"s habitat. The picture shows that people have destroyed the habitat from building roads, so they wanted to go back in time and live off the land. Because our culture has developed this way of being fast pace, we develop yoga classes and meditation as ways of slowing down. People develop language, writing tools, norms, etc as ways of adapting in the environment.
