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Culture and Social Behaviors

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The difference between social behavior and culture is that social behavior is how people react with each other, the values and traditions within a society, and these behaviors are learned through observing and interacting with other people. Culture is a person’s beliefs, habits, and cultural traits. Culture is learned by observing other people. An example of social behavior would be a family that has a certain way of doing things doing the holidays. In other words a tradition that has been passed down from generation to generation. An example of culture would be if a child’s parents teach him/her to hate people from other races other than their own. They learn this by observing how their parents treat other people from different cultures. Culture influences human behavior by the way that you interact with other people. It also helps to link many different people together. Culture will help you to decide what your benefits are, how we deal with other people, and the shared ideas that we depend on. Another crucial aspect of culture is that it is based on meaningful information. All cultures use language to encode and share information. People act as they do because they process this information (Baumeister & Bushman, 2014 p. 47). Basically, information that people get from culture will change their behavior. For example, people from one culture (Australian) will only interact with other people from that culture. Nature influences human behavior by nature and nurture working together. Nature is the inherited genes that we got from our family through the generations. Nurture is the things that will influence us. Basically, nature helps us to determine out potential and nurture is the way that we are affected by the environment. Many people like to get into simplistic arguments about “Nature versus Nurture,” trying to trace various behaviors back to either nature or nurture. This creates a very simplistic “either-or” logic that

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