[PSYCO241] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 33 pages long Study Guide!
29 Mar 2017
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Culture used to be a term used to describe other people. It can be used to talk about how educated someone is, or how cultivated they are. People behave in patterned ways, and people can be expected to do certain things in certain circumstances. Culture can be defined as what you do, and how you do it. Culture is behaviour, which includes what you say, think, and how you feel. In social psychology, it"s said that you become what you do, and what you do is done among other people. People behave in response to normative practices, for example: there"s a certain way to speak to your teachers. Most of the time, people fall into a certain pattern that can be observed. Culture is not a factor that you can isolate. Our cultural systems help us to navigate day to day, and how to interact with the people around us. We are constituted by culture, but there are blind spots.
