4 Flashcards
Who said?
Latin verb colere; inhabit, cultivate, protect, honor with
worship
▪ Culture is what we are
Fr. Samuel Agcaracar
Who said?
o Culture is conceived as the way of life of a social group, not of an individual as such.
o It is the way a society copes with its physical, social, and ideational environment.
o In other words, culture is a society’s regularized or standardized design for living.
Fr. Louis Luzbetak
Beliefs, experiences, principles, values and memories are shared as a result of common enculturation; process of how culture is passed on
ENCULTURATION
INCULTURATION
ENCULTURATION
Who said?
o The process by which culture is passed on and is learned
o “A very long process of growing into the culture to which
he or she belongs”
Nicolas Standaert
is “a partially conscious and partially unconscious learning experience whereby the older generation invited, induces, and compels the younger generation to adopt traditional ways of thinking and behaving.
Culture
is primarily based on the control that the older generation
exercises over the means of rewarding and punishing children.” (Harris)
Enculturation
Culture can be discerned in various levels according to Standaert: (4)
- Action
- Symbol
- Always changing
- Subcultures
Such as clothing or means of transport
- Action
- Symbol
- Always changing
- Subcultures
action
Myth, rites of passage at birth, puberty, marriage,
greeting, etc.
Part of symbol is language
▪ Myth, rites of passage at birth, puberty, marriage,
greeting, etc.
- Action
- Symbol
- Always changing
- Subcultures
symbol
Cultures do evolve. Due to demographic development, economic laws, climactic changes, or human technological progress
- Action
- Symbol
- Always changing
- Subcultures
Always changing
Within a culture, there can be several subcultures
- Action
- Symbol
- Always changing
- Subcultures
Subcultures
who said
“Ritual behaviors, religious institutions, and sacred texts find their
wherewithal in the bailiwick of culture.”
Stanley Skreslet
“The deposit of Faith or the truths are one thing and the mannerin which they are enunciated, in the same meaning and understanding, is another.”
- Lumen Gentium, 62
- Ad Gentes , 11
- Lumen Gentium, 62
Adopting culture one is immersed in
- Enculturation
- Inculturation
- Enculturation
Integrating aspects of a new culture to one’s own
o Ex: Hapag ng Pag-Asa by Joey Velasco
- Enculturation
- Inculturation
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