PSYC14H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Cultural Psychology, Central Processing Unit, Richard Shweder
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What is culture: particular kind of information: specifically, info that is acquired from other members of one"s species through social learning that is capable of affecting an individual"s behaviour. Culture is any kind of idea, belief, tech, habit, or practice that is needed through learning from others: culture to indicate a particular group of individuals. They are people who are existing w/i some kind of shared context. They are exposed to many of the same cultural ideas. They might attends same cultural institutions, engage in similar cultural practices, see the same ad, follow the same norms, have conversations w/ each other daily. At global level, culture is refered to broad swaths of the earth"s pop, which includes people from a large number of diff countries. Western culture europe & societies of british descent us, canada, and. But there are few challenges of thinking culture as group of people.
