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    This document discusses the relationship between culture and psychology. It defines culture as the way of life and activities of a group of people, which is influenced by their ecology, resources, and need to solve problems. Culture encompasses both objective tangible elements like food and clothes, as well as subjective intangible elements like attitudes and beliefs. Cross-cultural research faces challenges in survey design, translation, data collection due to cultural differences, as well as cultural obligations and ethics that must be considered. Culture influences psychology through the adaptation of skills, interests, values and norms through the process of enculturation.

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    CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY

    WEEK1: The study of Culture to Psychology

    What is culture and psychology?


    - Way of life of people
    - Can be caused to described activities and/or
    behavior
    - Description of activities and behavior
    - Heritage and tradition of a group
    - Collective activities of people
    Origin of Culture
    1.Ecology – relation of organisms to one and to
    their physical surrounding.
    Example is climate. This one receives much
    attention on how ecology affects culture. On a
    macro level of analysis, U.S. and South Korea, have
    harsh winters and miserably hot summer. The south
    and south east Asia, have almost hot weather all
    year long. These ecological different ways of life of
    people, hence, creates different culture.
    2.Resources – The status of environment and
    people’s assets.
    Places with scare natural resources like land and
    water may encourage teamwork, unity and
    community spirit among members of the
    community. From these needs and relationship
    will foster attributes and characteristics and
    therefore create pattern of their living.
    3.People – we create culture for survival. The
    basic source of culture.
    In our physical environment, we always
    encounter problems and we bound to solve for it
    and therefore, become a way of living.
    Content of Culture
    As a culture embodies meaning and information
    system, it is necessary to know different aspects on
    our way of living.
    1.Objective Elements – tangibles aspects of
    culture (food, clothes, etc.)
    2.Subjective Elements -Internal aspects of
    person’s culture (attitudes, beliefs, etc.)
    Challenges in Cross-cultural Research
    1.Survey Design – It was important that item
    equivalence was maintained in both cultures in
    order to identify any ‘true’ cultural differences
    2.Translation – Administering a culturally viable
    research instrument can only be achieved when
    it is used in the participant’s native language.
    3.Data Collection – While particular dates and
    times might be useful and convenient for the
    researcher in one country, it might not be the
    same in other country.
    4.Cultural Obligation and Peer Pressure –
    respondents may be subjected to different
    perspective depending on their status in the
    community.
    5.Ethical Consideration and awareness- all
    researcher involving human participation calls
    for maintaining ethical standards and following
    ethical guidelines. This even more important in
    cross cultural research as identifying and
    understanding the cultural specific variance in a
    sample is of utmost importance to address
    research confounds.
    Influence of cultural to Psychology
    - Adaption of skills, interest, values, norms,
    etc.
    - Enculturation

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