PSYC14H3 Chapter 2: Chapter 2 Textbook Notes
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Chapter 2: cultura l evolution: manners differ across cultures as people are socialized to different sets of norms and customs, ex. In the 16th century it was viewed as unhealthy to refrain from either spitting or from passing wind. Stands of politeness, as well as many other cultural norms, have changed over generations: culture fluid and constantly changing as new ideas emerge and conditions change. To understand cultural variation have to look at the various forces that come into play: Ecological and geographic variation: different environments affect the ways that people go about living their daily lives. Ecological difference can have some more indirect effects on cultures as well. Diamonds these is a powerful argument that cultural differences can importantly originate in geographical differences. There are two ways that we can understand how geography can contribute to cultural variation: 1). Cultural norms can arise as direct responses to features of the ecology or: 2).
