SOCPSY 2YY3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Phycology, Emic And Etic

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 2YY3
• Professor: Katie

Document Summary

There is no universal answer to define culture. James house: culture set of cognitive and emulative beliefs that are shared by members of a social system and transmitted to new members. Culture has direct impact on individuals and groups. E. g. , contrast and compare canadian and japanese cultures. Cross cultural and cross national research is beneficial on global scale. Allows us to know how to interact with people of different cultures. Intensive study of psychological phenomena within separate cultures. Study behavior and social structure of one particular system or culture. More used by anthropologists because they take general approach and study one group at a time. Involves looking for commonalities across many or all cultures. Ideology : human universals that can be applied to all people regardless of position in the world. Used by sociologists/psychologists in order to research for generalized. Used by sociologists/psychologists in order to research for generalized relationships. Used in research how biology is related (evolutionary social psychology)