Impact of culture on social behaviour
Social behaviour varies dramatically across human populations and throughout history. This applies to many of the domains that psychologically oriented researchers typically consider, including cooperation, trust, fairness, in-group favouritism/ cheating, costly punishment, aggressiveness, morality, and competitiveness.
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Impact of culture on social behavior
1. Impact of culture on
Social Behavior
Social Psychology
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2. What is Culture?
How does it Impact on Social Behavior?
• Definition - a set of ideas,
behavior, attitudes and traditions
that exist within a large groups of
people.
• Passed on from generation to
generation.
• There are many different cultures.
3. • Culture plays a vital role in shaping the society and the
country.
• It shapes experiences and influences us right from birth.
• An early exposure to culture helps in forming our identity.
• For the most of the people the behavior is just built
automatically through experiences and events.
4. • Values influence human social behavior because they form the
basics for norms.
• It help us to develop and act in a certain way.
• It enhances our quality of life.
• It is easily identified by examining the behavior and acts of local
people by observing how people react to a negative / positive
stimulus.
5. • People In a culture are taught from
a young age what those rules are
from those around them.
• Culture forces us to create and
learn in our own ways of thinking,
feeling and behaving.
• They remind us that we are part of a
history that defines our past, shapes
who we are today and who we are
likely to become.
• It looks at the totality of any given
society’s belief system, laws,
morals, practices, language and
attitudinal variables, which makes a
person unique from others.
