SOC 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Collectivism, Egotism, Individualism
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The enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next. The self is determined in part by the culture that we live in. A north american would likely answer: i am tall, i am good at sports, i am outgoing. An asian would likely answer: i am a kawakami, i am a buddhist, i am my father"s daughter. Promote the concept of giving priority to one"s own goals over group goals and defining one"s identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identifications. For example, i am a good student, i am smart, i am good at basketball: a great example is the novel the giver, this eutopian culture where you give up your choices, spouse chosen, Independent selves kids or not, what job: self-schema in which others are not represented as part of the self. Context independent: attend to focal object and not gestalt.
