First
off in order to answer these questions; establishing some historiography facts
are an absolute requirement (Abi-Hashem, 2015).
Wilhelm Wundt who wrote the first modern Psychology textbook published in the 1870s,
but it was begun in the early 1840s when he was a teenager (Ratner, 2008).
Wundt suffered on the extreme side of trauma for most of his early life being
an indentured servant to the Prussian Empire (Dariusz Milewski, 2018).
That cultures need to achieve goals superseded every single rule the human race
has created regarding proper individual and group (culture) conduct (Kroeber, &
Kluckhohn, 1952). Up to and including
committing genocide on at least a dozen occasions. The facts that the human
race does not know as a matter of absolute fact where Wundt was during those
formative years should be a center point of focus regarding the fields
cornerstone research (Cowan, 2018). However culturally the Prussians informed the world “this
is our official story, and we suggest with a genocide backing it up ‘Do not
question our authority’, that is all just believe what we tell you and move
on”.
Wundt
was not in Europe during his teen years. He was in America translating books
from a recently captured ancient library. Those books the Prussians had
convinced themselves contained information about extremely advanced weapons that
their enemies had kept from them for the last several 1000 years. The Prussian
Empire had demanded those weapons so they could use those weapons against all
of their enemies. Every question or concept in the field of Psychology comes from
a foundation of a NAZI culture informing the world “these are the facts, and do
not question us at all in any way, shape, or form”. Psychology has accepted
those facts (fictions) and have built a foundation based on a huge amount of
lies and fictions (Arnett, 2009).
What
are some definitions of culture that researchers have utilized? The definitions
of culture which have been utilized can be well defined, but all but totally
misunderstood. The Scientific Method. Order of operations, if a large
collection of facts in the mathematics are easily provable wrong, all answers
from the mistakes forward are associated wrong (Hwang, 2013).
“The
arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded
collectively.
"20th
century popular culture"” (Kroeber, & Kluckhohn, 1952)
Another
definition is “A collection of people goal directed towards improving the whole
though improving the self.” In other words, how can improving me improve my
species.
What
is a definition of culture that resonates with you and why?
The
definition of culture which resonates with me the strongest is the second
definition. How can we as a collection of individuals work to improve the self
by working on things which will improve the species. In any given system, the
weakest part requires the most help (van de Vijver, 2013). If we are all directed towards improving the whole, the
weakest in all of us has its needs taken care of. In a way the concepts of
super symmetry come into effect (Ospedal, 2019).
Why
should psychologists be interested in understanding culture?
Because
without the field of Culture the field of Psychology would not exist (Henrich, Heine, &
Norenzayan, 2010). Psychology came from
the tools found in the works of Homer in his stories the Iliad and Odyssey. Without
the culture packaging Wundt would not have found the tools for population
control, etc.. The more that dynamic of how did the works of the Iliad and
Odyssey become the field of Psychology, that is a subject which needs huge
amounts of work. Studying the applications of those specific cultures, will
lead to universal truths about both the human species and our pack leanings.
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