PSY321H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Joseph W. Phinney, Embeddedness, Egalitarianism
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Cultural psychology psychology with a cultural perspective. Psychology has two main goals: to build a body of knowledge about people. Psychologists seek to understand behaviour when it happens, explain why it happens, and even predict it before it happens. They achieve this by conducting research and creating theories of behaviour: taking that body of knowledge and applying it to intervene in people"s lives, to make those lives better. Psychologists achieve this in many ways: as therapists, counsellors, trainers, and consultants. Weirdos (american students only rep 5% of world: western, educated, rich, democratic cultures. It can also refer to general characteristics; food and clothing; housing and technology; economy and transportation; individual and family activities; community and government; welfare, religion, and science; and sex and the life cycle. 3 different origins of culture: ecology, resources, and people. Its not just absolute temperature that affects culture ways of living; more specifically, it"s the deviation from temperate climate.
