UCSP 4 Q1W3.1 Cultural Aspect

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CULTURE, SOCIETY,

POLITICS
BY: JOCE GUTIERREZ
CULTURE
It is defined as the society’s
way of life, customs beliefs,
social forms, and traits that
define a specific racial,
religious, or social group.
CULTURE
The complex whole includes
knowledge, belief, art, law,
morals, custom, and any other
SIR EDWARD
capabilities and habits acquired BURNETT TYLOR
by man as a member of society.
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ASPECTS OF CULTURE

RELIGION AGE EDUCATION

SOCIO- SEXUAL
ECONOMIC ORIENTATION GENERATION GENDER
STATUS

ETHNICITY RACE NATIONALITY


Components of
Culture
Components of Culture

MATERIAL
CULTURE
It consists of tangible
things created by humans
that refer to the physical
objects, resources, and
spaces that people use to
define their culture.
Components of Culture

MATERIAL CULTURE

FOODS TRANSPORTATION CLOTHING FOODS


Components of Culture

NON-MATERIAL
CULTURE
It consists of intangible
things that refer to the
nonphysical ideas that
people have about
their culture.
Components of Culture

NON-MATERIAL CULTURE

VALUES LANGUAGE TRADITIONS RELIGIONS


Components of Culture

VALUES LANGUAGE TRADITIONS RELIGIONS


Characteristics
of Culture
Characteristics of Culture

1. Culture is shared
2. Culture is dynamic, flexible, and adaptive
3. Culture is learned
4. Culture is transmitted through socialization or
enculturation
5. Culture is a set of pattern and social interactions
6. Culture is integrated
7. Culture requires language and other forms of
communication
Elements of Culture
Elements of Culture

SYMBOLS
Refers to anything that is used to
represent, express, and/or stand
for an event, situation, person, or
idea.
Elements of Culture

LANGUAGE
It system of words and symbols used
to communicate with other people
people.
It is considered as is our most
important set of symbols.
Elements of Culture

VALUES
It is an idea shared by the people
in a society about what is good or
bad, right and wrong, desirable
and undesirable.
Elements of Culture

TECHNOLOGY
Refers to the application of knowledge
and equipment to ease the task of living
environment; it
and maintaining the environment
includes artifacts, methods and devices
created and used by people.
Elements of Culture

BELIEFS
Refers to people’s ideas about what is
real and what is not
not. It is what people
consider as factual.
These maybe based on common sense,
folk wisdom, religion, science or a
combination of all of these.
Elements of Culture

NORMS
Refers to specific rules/standards to
guide for appropriate behavior.
These are societal expectations that
mandate specific behaviors in
specific situations.
Elements of Culture

Most norms are connected with social


positions and roles in specific situations.

• PRESCRIPTIVE – they tell you what to do


• PROSCRIPTIVE – they tell you what NOT
to do
Elements of Culture
Elements of Culture: Types of Norms

FOLKWAYS
These are norms that have little
strengths and may, within broad limits,
be easily broken.
It is also known as CUSTOMS, the
everyday behavior that people follow
for the sake of tradition or convenience.
Elements of Culture: Types of Norms

MORES
This are strict norms that control
moral and ethical behavior; they are
based on definitions of right and
wrong.
Elements of Culture: Types of Norms

LAWS
These are controlled ethics and they are
morally agreed, written down and enforced
by an official law enforcement agency.
They are institutionalized norms and mores
that were enacted by the state to ensure
stricter punishment in order for the people
to adhere to the standards set by society.
Modes of Acquiring
of Culture
Acquiring Culture

IMITATION
Whereby an individual
observes and replicates other’s
behavior.
Acquiring Culture

INDOCTRINATION / SUGGESTION

This is a process of inculcating


ideas, attitudes, cognitive
strategies or a professional
methodology.
Acquiring Culture

CONDITIONING
By which he/she was helped to
learned something by punishing
him or giving him reward.

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