PSYC14H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Noodle, Salmon
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Behaviour and actions may differ from other places. Smaller community compared to st. george you get to know everybody. Feels like a high school which can contribute to its culture. Culture in its broadest sense is cultivated behaviour; that is the totality of a person"s learned, accumulated experience which is socially transmitted. Some of its symbols include a group"s skills, knowledge, attitudes, values, and motives. The meanings of the symbols are learned and deliberately perpetuated in a society through its institutions: deliberately delivered and passed onto institutions which differs from the above where it"s passed on from generation to generation. Culture is the sum of the learned behaviour of a group of people that are generally considered to be the tradition of that people and are transmitted from generation to generation. Fortunately, there are some commonalities across definitions: humans interact with environments, where people live shape their cultures. Ecocultural components: culture is both constrained and shaped by a group"s habitat.
