PSYC18H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Ifalik, Display Rules, Bungee Jumping
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Culture system of ideas and practices that are held in common in a particular society, or a set of societies. Society group of people who live in a particular place at a particular time. Still, on the other side of the spectrum, the west views emotions are the guarantee of authenticity and our best guide to our true selves: emotions signal how events in our environment correspond to our concerns and interests. During the era of romanticism, there was more of an appreciation for emotions. Jean-jacques rousseau is responsible for one of the first articulations of romantic spirit. Claimed that religious sensibility is based on how you feel rather than on authority: core beliefs about emotions as primordial, authentic causes of behaviour. Cultural approach involves the assumption that emotions are constructed primarily by the processes of culture: more radical claim is that emotions derive from human meanings, which are necessarily cultural like languages or works of art.
