culture
Fear of England, English culture, etc
Fear of France, French cultureAlso knonwn as Gallophobia or Galiophobia
Fear of Chinese, Chinese culture
Fear of German or German things
Learned symbolic
meanings approximately shared by most members of a society or by identifiable segments of the society (e.g., status groups), and generally transmitted from one generation to the next. (Note: this definition and concepts within it are amplified in Rohner, 1984.) The important point here is that the concept "culture" in
PARTheory refers exclusively to some degree of
consensus about symbolic
meanings among members of a population. The concept does not include behavior except insofar as behavior is motivated by or expresses symbolic meanings. (See
culture learning;
enculturation;
equivalence of meaning;
mental representation)
