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Social Psychology
Historically European-North American Product
Study of social psychologists from other cultural traditions: dissatisfaction traditional social psychology.
Social Psychology
Social psychology of each culture are different
India vs. America: widow women example (Collectivism vs. Individualism) Ethnocentric universalism and false consensus effect
For example: Smoking is dangerous or not
Definitions
Culture is to society what memory is to individuals.
Generation to generation Shared perspective Human made
In sum,
Different culture= different social psychologies Location of culture helps to make prediction
In individualistic cultures
Determinants of behavior are usually attitudes and beliefs.
Social Behavior
The influence of culture on social behavior can be studied by using models. Triandis model: Specifies how elements of culture shape social behavior.
Rewarded repetitions of this behavior become habits and later customs Circular causation: culture influences social behavior and social behavior shapes culture.
The rate of interaction among individuals and sharing the elements of culture..
Increase when demographic factors are similar Decrease when demographic factors are different
Concluding Comment
Social psychology emerged in the West and under the influence of cross- cultural psychology it is broadening to develop an integrated framework for placing indigenous social psychologies. This theory is held together by universal patterns of social behavior, but allows each indigenous social psychology to develop in its own way.
Concluding Comment
The major contributions of cross-cultural social psychology are two:
The development of culture-sensitive methodologies that allow the identification of indigenous social psychology. The comparison of these social psychologies and the development of better understanding of cultural syndromes.
Concluding Comment
The realization that ethnocentrism is a consequence of the total immersion of humans in their own culture, which makes their own culture the standard against which other cultures are judged, is perhaps the most important insight of cross-cultural social psychology and that will permit the reduction of ethnocentrism.
Concluding Comment
Ways of reducing ethnocentrism:
Humans are exposed to thier cultures and see strengths in these cultures that their own culture does not have. By teaching people to see the world the way people other cultures see the world Cross cultural training can help us aviod such misunderstanding.
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