Culture

Question 1

What is Cultural Determinism?

Answer 1

• Belief that the culture in which we are raised determines who we are at emotional and behavioural levels
• In a particular society, people acquire ideas and values to determine how they should behave to suit social norms
• this differs from one society to another
• proper attitude towards another culture is ‘tolerance’
• People determine culture and culture defines the people
• People are passive creatures and can be ‘conditioned’ to become what culture tells them

Question 2

What is Culture?

Answer 2

A way of life of a group of people - their behaviours, beliefs, values and symbols that they accept, generally without thinking about them, and that they are passed along by communication and imitation from one generation to the next.