1. Culture and the Individual
Culture, Anthropology and Psychology

2. Disciplines Anthropology Culture and Personality
Psychological Anthropology
Psychology
Cross-Cultural Psychology
Education
Interdisciplinary/Multidisciplinary
Cultural Psychology

3. Levels of Analysis Population Level Community Family Individual level
Socialization
Enculturation
Acculturation

4. Key Terminology Culture Personality Society Biology Ecology Diversity
Universal traits
Culture Specific Traits

5. Culture Abstract Learned Shared Rules/Standards/Templates
Generating Behavior
Understanding experience

6. Culture
Culture is the abstract, learned, shared rules/standards/templates used to generate behavior and to interpret experience.

7. Personality Characteristics of individuals Genetics Socialization
Enculturation
Life experience
Ongoing interaction

8. Personality
Personality is the characteristics of an individual arising from the ongoing interaction of genetics, socialization, enculturation and life experience.

9. A group of people using a shared culture
Society
A group of people using a shared culture

10. Biology
Anatomy
Physiology
Genetics

11. Epigenetics Epigenetics Environmental on/off switches Regulatory Genes
vs Structural Genes
Environmental learning
Imprinting

12. Ecology
Environment
Subsistence strategy
Subsistence technology

13. Diversity Terminology
Race
Ethnicity
Cross Cultural
Cross Ethnic (Multicultural)
Cross National
First, Second, Third World
Developed, Developing
Traditional, Modern
Peripheral, Core

14. Race
An arbitrary social category used for purposes of discrimination.
Ethnicity
A group with which one chooses to identify on the basis of shared ancestry or heritage.

15. Culture Specific Traits
Universal Traits
Traits that all humans have
Culture Specific Traits
Traits that only occur in a particular culture or particular type of culture

16. Key Terminology Absolutism Relativism Ethnocentrism
Cultural Relativism
Reductionist
Determinist

17. Absolutism Relativism
Belief that things are what they are without regard for their context/environment.
Relativism
Belief that things differ depending on the context/environment in which they are found/grow/develop.

18. Ethnocentrism Cultural Relativism
Judging another culture using your own culture’s rules and standards.
Cultural Relativism
Judging another culture using its own rules and standard’s.

19. Reductionist
Trying to explain complex phenomena using single, simple explanations.
Eg. Determinism

20. Determinism
Environmental Determinism
Economic Determinism
Ecological Determinism
Sociopolitical Determinism
Biological Determinism

21. Processes in the Individual
Ontogeny
Perception
Emotion
Cognition
Learning

22. Ontogeny
The process of growth and development in an individual organism
Perception
The process of detecting and interpreting stimuli from the outside world

23. Emotion
The conscious experience of a feeling or state which leads to both internal and external reactions
Cognition
Thought processes

24. The process of acquiring and storing information
Learning
The process of acquiring and storing information

25. Processes in Individuals Relative to Cultural Settings
Socialization
Enculturation
Acculturation

26. Socialization Enculturation
The process of learning when content is consciously taught by others within the society.
Enculturation
The process of absorbing the culture(s) in which an individual is raised.

27. Acculturation
The process of acquiring a culture other than the one in which an individual was raised.