PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Symbolic Interactionism, Procedural Knowledge, Microsoft Powerpoint
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E. g. , money is a lot more than just a piece of paper in societies like ours; in the past, sticks were exchanged as monetary transactions, which seems ridiculous to us. E. g. , in other cultures, people bow their heads in order to greet one another, whereas we shake hands. E. g. , a tuesday and a saturday feel very different to some people, though days of the week were a social construction created in order to plan time. E. g. , clothing and fashion trends differ across time and cultures; anything that is not from our generation and our culture seems weird to us. People are motivated to achieve mutual understand or shared reality" with others in order to:establish, maintain, and regulate interpersonal relationships. Perceive themselves and their environments as stable, predictable, meaningful, and potentially controllable. The individual"s psychology is shaped through engagement with and participation in the culture. Your culture, once internalized, comes to influence your psychology.
