PSYC 3800 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Good Reading, Sociolinguistics, Multicultural Education
24 Apr 2017
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Culture the knowledge, rules, traditions, attitudes and values that guide the behaviour of a group of people and allow them to solve the problems of living in their environment. The group (which can be defined along regional, ethnic, religious, racial, gender, social class, or other lines) creates the culture. People are members of groups, not members of cultures. Ricardo garcia compares culture to an iceberg 1/3 can be seen (costumes, marriage traditions) and the rest are unknown (implicit, unstated, even unconscious biases and beliefs) Some psychologists suggest that culture defines intelligence (manipulating words and numbers in important in western societies, are seen as indicators of intelligence) Remember there are many variables within culture, and that group membership is not destiny (cannot make assumptions about a person because they belong to a certain cultural group) Conflicts can happen when the values and competencies of the dominant, mainstream culture are used to determine what is considered (cid:498)normal(cid:499) or appropriate behaviour in schools.
