Cultural Psych Notes W
Cultural Psychology Notes
01/22/15
1. Understanding Cross-Cultural Psychology
a. Culture
i. Definition: Set of attitudes, behaviors, symbols shared by a large group of people
b. Cross-cultural psychology
i. Definition: Critical and comparative study of cultural effects on human behavior in relation to psychology?
c. How do they differ?
i. Cultural psychology seeks to discover meaningful links between culture and psych of individual ii. Human behavior is meaningful only when viewed in sociological context
d. Define the following:
i. Race: Share similar physical and generic characteristics
1. What are the racial categories in the US?
a. White, Native American, Asian, Hispanic, Black
b. Mixed falls under ‘other’ on forms/applications (graph population: down below)
c. How will it change culture? Nation will change with increase in minority (example: politics)
d. Minority: definition- not white (or ‘lesser population’) ii. Ethnicity: Cultural heritage shared with and also sharing common ancestral origin (language and religion) iii. Nationality: Group of people make legit and independent state share common geographical location (origin, history, and often language)
e. Population of US
f.
g. Knowledge in cross-cultural psychology
i. Scientific: Facts based on research ii. Popular Beliefs: Stereotypes (example: religion, race); not fact iii. Ideological & Value-based knowledge: Tradition, beliefs set on world, wrong/right, purpose of life iv. Legal Knowledge: Anything turned into law
v. Ideological and Legal Knowledge are linked: what’s wrong/right -> morals turned into law vi. Impact of knowledge in cross cultural psychology: Knowledge- popular, ideologically, scientific, legal -> culture -> individual behavior (mixture, not strictly bound to any forms ind. behavior) (ex: theft)
h. Defining Culture
i. Traditional Culture: based largely on beliefs, rules, symbols and principles (ex: church- christian sundays, catholicism) ii. Non-traditional Culture: based largely on
01/22/15
1. Understanding Cross-Cultural Psychology
a. Culture
i. Definition: Set of attitudes, behaviors, symbols shared by a large group of people
b. Cross-cultural psychology
i. Definition: Critical and comparative study of cultural effects on human behavior in relation to psychology?
c. How do they differ?
i. Cultural psychology seeks to discover meaningful links between culture and psych of individual ii. Human behavior is meaningful only when viewed in sociological context
d. Define the following:
i. Race: Share similar physical and generic characteristics
1. What are the racial categories in the US?
a. White, Native American, Asian, Hispanic, Black
b. Mixed falls under ‘other’ on forms/applications (graph population: down below)
c. How will it change culture? Nation will change with increase in minority (example: politics)
d. Minority: definition- not white (or ‘lesser population’) ii. Ethnicity: Cultural heritage shared with and also sharing common ancestral origin (language and religion) iii. Nationality: Group of people make legit and independent state share common geographical location (origin, history, and often language)
e. Population of US
f.
g. Knowledge in cross-cultural psychology
i. Scientific: Facts based on research ii. Popular Beliefs: Stereotypes (example: religion, race); not fact iii. Ideological & Value-based knowledge: Tradition, beliefs set on world, wrong/right, purpose of life iv. Legal Knowledge: Anything turned into law
v. Ideological and Legal Knowledge are linked: what’s wrong/right -> morals turned into law vi. Impact of knowledge in cross cultural psychology: Knowledge- popular, ideologically, scientific, legal -> culture -> individual behavior (mixture, not strictly bound to any forms ind. behavior) (ex: theft)
h. Defining Culture
i. Traditional Culture: based largely on beliefs, rules, symbols and principles (ex: church- christian sundays, catholicism) ii. Non-traditional Culture: based largely on