PSYC14H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Enculturation, Acculturation
Document Summary
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. 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. Culture is a collective programming of the mind that distinguishes the members of one group or category of people from another: suggesting that cultures overlap and that there are blurred lines. Common elements in each definition: how culture is passed on from one culture to the next. Disagreement: one says passing to next generation is subconscious, others say its deliberate. Commonalities amongst definitions: humans interact with environment.
