PSY230H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: An American Dilemma, Idiolect, Emic And Etic
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13 culture, religion, and ethnicity: process and differences summary. Cultural effects: the shared behaviours and customs learned from the institutions in society. It is hard to see oddities in our own culture, due to us seeing them as normal. Ethnocentrism: evaluating others from one"s own cultural standpoint. People are shaped by their culture/subculture in differing ways from other cultures/subcultures, resulting in differing personalities. Emic approach: an approach that is culture-specific, focusing on a single culture on its own terms. Etic approach: an approach that is cross-cultural, searching for generalities across cultures. F-scale: scale developed to measure someone"s proneness to be rigid and authoritarian. Different scales are needed for different cultures. You cannot expect a scale to be as accurate once the culture has changed. Race as a flawed approach to grouping people. Ethnic group: a group whose membership is based primarily on shared cultural habits or customs.
