PSYC14H3 Lecture 1: PSYC14 ONE
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Some of its symbols include a group"s skills, knowledge, attitudes, values, and motives. Commanalities: humans interact with environment, ecocultural components: culture is both constrained and shaped by a group"s habitat. Ex: yuhai group- talked into by fancy environmentalists who ruined, yuhai claimed it back and regained function of the lake: culture is adaptive to the environment. Cultural dance groups: do people share a language? a time periods? a geographic region, double boundary- i don"t understand your language, like you don"t with mine, transmission to others. Horizontal peer to peer-mutual process subtle feedback, offended by inappropriate words, resulting in avoidance. Oblique- within school systems, media- internalizing information from adults: enculturation process of transmitting cultural elements to others in one"s own community, serves as a source of continuity. Lecture 1: acculturation another form of transmission that takes place from outside a person"s own cultural group, serves as a source of discontinuity.
