PSYC14H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Internment Of Japanese Americans, Pastoralism, Affective Forecasting
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Some of its symbols include a group"s skills, knowledge, attitudes, values, and motives. : culture is both constrained and shaped by a group"s o. The cultures that worked for living in specific environment were o transmitted from generation to generation. People develop language, writing, tools, skills, abstract ideas, moral & aesthetic standards, social patterns, norms in adapting to their ecosystem. Families had a lot of kids because kids would die young/easily so having o more kids increased chances of having a kid that survives. Changes that are lagging: when people of lower classes accumulate o wealth they start doing things that the higher classes used to do and may not do anymore in order to feel their status. Process of transmitting cultural elements to others in one"s own: born into community, natural flow, becoming accustomed to the traditions and ideals of your community, acculturation own cultural group, serves as a source of discontinuity.
