PSYC 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: Cultural Lag, Trans-Cultural Diffusion
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Core values do not change without meeting strong resistance from traditionalists. Consequently, many people are upset a that exchanges swirling around them, seeing their way of life challenged and their future growing insecure. Alarmed at such onslaughts to their values, traditionalists fiercely defend idealized family relationships and gender roles. Canadians are trying to embrace the changing moral values of tolerance and respect for other cultures and ways of life. Canadian media differs in some respects form that in the united states. Canadian government exercises much less military power than the us. Cultural universals: values, norms, or other cultural traits that are found everywhere. According to our definitions of culture e- a learned way of life passed one to others it would seem that animals could not have culture. We thought that only humans could make tools but actually animals can do so too. Anthropologists characterize the natural communications system of other primates such as apes and monkeys as call systems.
