Psyc 288

Activity Two

This week we you should focus on one of the following study questions and be sure to post your thoughts on a good answer for it:

1) Provide a definition of culture based upon the material in the readings and lecture notes and describe the challenges of doing so. 

In addition, once you provide a statement on culture, discuss its benefits and limitations and how your definition might it constrain what culture actually is (i.e. leave out other important elements of culture)?

2) Provide a brief overview of the history of the psychology of culture and it's relation to other disciplines. Who are the most important scholars that shaped it's history? What were the major trends or style that led to cross-cultural or cultural psychology?

Make a post on the discussion board showing the points you have as an answer and also be sure to reply to at least one other person's post.