Culture Flashcards
What is culture?
A set of explicit and implicit patterns of historically derived beliefs and their embodiment in institutions, practices and artefacts
What does culture do?
Cultures evolve to efficiently teach and perpetuate social rules and expectations
It enables large-scale group living To be possible
What is the important link between emotion and culture?
Emotions play a central role in motivating social behaviour so norms surrounding the display of emotion are important to any culture
Emotions play a central role in motivating social behaviour so norms surrounding the display of emotion are important to any culture
True or false?
True
How does culture give rise to psychological processes?
How we think, behave depends on the concepts we have learned
How does culture give meaning for social participation?
Appropriate behaviour is defined, cued based on culturally defined norms
Culture and systems of meaning
Cultures are ways of interpreting, understanding, and explaining what is going on in the world around us
Examples
- Language,
- Rituals
- objects with culturally defined meaning
How are culture and emotion interactive processes?
Culture influences emotion experience, expression and knowledge
Emotions influence the development of cultural meetings and practices
Most scientists would agree human beings have some universal potential for emotions, but also that across cultures, emotions are configured in very different and uniquely adaptive ways
What do you appraisal and constructionist theorists reject about universal emotions
They rejected the notion of highly stereotyped emotion programs
(Arguing that emotion differs across culture)
What did initial cross cultural work focus on in regard to universal emotions?
Scientist Focus on similarities, tending to ignore differences in favour of the notion of basic emotions
Scientists sought evidence that emotions were…
Survival adaptations by studying expression across culture
The study of emotion and culture began with a search for universal emotion and ended with Exploring cultural variation in different emotion components
True or false
True
Is there evidence the universe Salici and variability in emotion expression and experience?
True
What theories of culture help explain some of the variability in emotion experience?
Individualism/collective ism
Cultures of honour
Dominant religion
Socio-ecological factors
