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Is there a link between 'culture'
and 'cultured' behaviour?
Can 'culture' save the world?
Witold Ostafiński PhD
Culture – various meanings

Taste for quality in the humanities and fine
arts.
 Integrated pattern of behaviours, beliefs, and
knowledge, which depend on the capacity for
social learning and symbolic thought
 Any human behaviours, which are not the
result exclusively of genetics.
 The way in which different societies
represented and classified their experiences.
Biological anthropology

Behaviours and the cultures interact. Both
factors influence each other.

Culture is a major factor in the behaviour of
individuals.
Cultural Anthropology

Culture is natural to humans.
 People who live in different circumstances or
areas of the world will have different societies
due to varying socialization and enculturation
practices.
 Culture can be used as a method for people to
change their behaviour in ways, which oppose
their genetics in order to adapt to the
environment
Cultural Psychology

Social practices and cultural traditions
regulate the behaviors and minds of those
who are members of the society.
 Tradition and culture shape the psyche of
individuals in the society and the meaning
this may have for the unity of humanity as a
whole.
 Culture leads to behaviors.
Cross-Cultural Psychiatry

Mental illnesses are displayed in different
cultures.
 Certain societies have cultures, which make
it more likely that individuals will suffer
from particular mental disorders.
Sociolinguistics

Cultural norms can affect the way language
is used in a particular group of people.
 Speech can be considered as a behavior in
this context and is used by individuals to
help them bond with other people in a given
culture.
Psychological anthropology

There is an interaction between the culture
and mental processes. These culturally
altered mental processes then lead to certain
behaviors.
Culture – will it save the world?

Culture is a site and an instrument for
fulfilling humanity.
 It shapes social mentality (also, unfortunately,
in building and perpetuating false attitudes).

Culture can contribute to human
development, but may as well block its
development.
The concept of integral culture

Integral culture - understood as the
whole on the basis of spiritual and
material complexity.
 Human being integral with his body and
soul is the creator of culture and at the
same time its addressee.
 Integral culture is open to transcendence.