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it is the scientific study of patterns of human interaction that deals with the study of a group of life.

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SOCIOLOGY

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a branch of knowledge which deals with the scientific study of man, his works, his body, his behavior and values, in time and space.

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ANTHROPOLOGY

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  • derived from the latin word “ cultura “ means ‘care or cultus’ “ civilization” .
  • way of the life of a person who has learned, shared, and transmitted by means of language and symbols.
  • is learned not biologically.
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CULTURE

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are units of learned behavior ranging from language spoken to the tools used or the games played. it can be an object, a technique, a belief or an attitude.

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CULTURE TRAITS

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refers to individual culture traits that are functionally related.

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CULTURE COMPLEX

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recognizes a large segment of the Earth’s surface having fundamental uniformity in its cultural characteristics and showing difference from the adjacent.

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CULTURAL REALM

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it is a tangible, physical record of a given culture. house types, transportation networks, parks and cemeteries, and size of distribution of settlements.

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CULTURAL LANDSCAPE

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the belief that the physical environment itself shapes humans, their actions and their thoughts.

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ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINISM

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it is the viewpoint of people, not the environment, a re the dynamic forces of cultural development.

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POSSIBILISM

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refers to the traditional and non - faddish way of life characteristics of a homogenous, cohesive, largely self - sufficient group that is essentially isolated from or resistant to outside forces; practices by small groups

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FOLK CULTURE

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culture that suggests a process of constantly adopting, conforming to, and quickly abandoning ever - changing fads and common modes of behavior

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POPULAR CULTURE / POP CULTURE

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includes physical objects or artifacts - things that human beings create by altering the natural environment.

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MATERIAL CULTURE - Types of Culture

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consists of words people use, the habits they follow, the ideas, laws, behavior, of any society profess and to which they strive to conform.

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NONMATERIAL CULTURE - Types of Culture

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these are the guides or models of behavior which tell us what is proper and which are not, appropriate or inappropriate, right or wrong.

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NORMS / SOCIAL NORMS - Components of Culture

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folkways, mores, and laws

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FORMS OF SOCIAL NORMS

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represents the standards we use to evaluate the desirability of things.

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VALUES - Components of Culture

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he identifies the major values orientations of many societies, each society has certain values that tend to set it apart and help distinguish it from other societies.

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ROBIN WILLIAMS

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personal achievements, occupational success, rags to riches, and value the self - made man.

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ACHIEVEMENT AND SUCCESS - Values

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place high value in work

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ACTIVITY AND WORK - Values

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the world in terms of right and wrong, and good and bad. to judge their conduct and that of others against ethical principles.

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MORAL ORIENTATION - Values

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one ideal for any person is material generosity, some people believe in helping others individually as well as collectively through organized charities and philanthropies.

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HUMANITARIANISM - Values

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associated with the importance they place on practicality and technology.

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EFFICIENCY AND PRACTICABILITY - Values

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he discover the values held highly by the Filipinos.

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JAIME BULATAO, SJ

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provides an outlet for the need of a person to get out of himself and come out into contact with another person in a free and unguarded and emotional exchange.

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EMOTIONAL CLOSENESS AND SECURITY IN THE FAMILY - Filipino Values

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the approval by the authority figure and by society’s surrogate, on the elders and hence, the family tends to be authoritarian.

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THE AUTHORITY VALUE - Filipino Values

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most often as a desire to raise the standard of living of one’s family or hometown as a repayment for one’s debt of gratitude ( utang na loob )

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ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL BETTERMENT - Filipino Values

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appears in stories when the frustrating force, whether poverty, injustice, sickness, or anything else is conceived as too powerful to be overcome.

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PATIENCE, SUFFERING, ENDURANCE - Filipino Values

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refers to a system of symbols that have specific and arbitrary meaning in a given society. this symbolic communication or language that sets human beings apart from other species.

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LANGUAGE - Components of Culture

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nodding your head generally means agreement or approval.

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HEAD

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nodding up and down signifies negative.

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BULGARIANS AND GREEKS - Head

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good eye contact expected in west, notable in Spain, Greece and Arab countries.

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EYES

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embarrassed by another’s stare and seek eye contact only at the beginning of conversation.

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FINNS AND JAPANESE - Eyes

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tug their earlobes to indicate tasty food.

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PORTUGESE - Ears

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tug the earlobes, this gesture has sexual connotations.

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ITALY - Ears

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tug their earlobes, it means someone is not paying for their drinks.

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SPAIN - Ears

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a hearty nose blows into a handkerchief is typical in..

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WEST - Nose

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37
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nose blowing is frowned upon by the..

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JAPANESE - Nose

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38
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tapping the nose means confidential in..

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ENGLAND - Nose

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tapping nose means watch out in..

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ITALY - Nose

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people use their lips to point instead of a finger.

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FILIPINO, NATIVE AMERICAN, PUERTO RICAN AND LATIN AMERICAN - Lips

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people often kiss when they meet or when they say goodbye.

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WEST - Lips

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it is considered too intimate of an action to be displayed in public.

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ASIAN - Lips

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sitting crosslegged is common in..

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NORTH AMERICA AND EUROPEAN COUNTRIES - Legs

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crosslegged is viewed as disrespectful to show the sole of the shoe to another person in..

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ASIA AND MIDDLE EAST - Legs

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use their arms freely where they often wave their arms around when talking..

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ITALY AND US - Arms

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they find it hard to tolerate gesturing their arms, associating it with insincerity and over-dramatization..

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NORTHERN EUROPEANS - Arms

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gesturing with broad movements is considered impolite..

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JAPAN - Arms

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american “ goodbye” wave, as the signal for “ no “ in many parts of..

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EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA - Hands

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italian “goodbye” waves can be interpreted to “come here” in..

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AMERICANS - Hands

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american “ come here “ gesture is seen as an insult most in..

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ASIAN COUNTRIES - Hands

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it is a taboo to point out with your index finger, but you can point with your thumb.

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MALAYSIA - Hands

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” thumbs up “ is a rude sexual signal in some..

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ISLAMIC COUNTRIES, SARDINIA AND GREECE - Hands

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is a group of languages thought to have a common origin in a single, earlier tongue within a family or subfamilies.

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LINGUISTIC FAMILY / LANGUAGE - Components of Culture

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french, spanish, portuguese, italian and romanian.

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ROMANCE LANGUAGES - Linguistic Family

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english, german and dutch.

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GERMANIC LANGUAGE - Linguistic Family

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spread and evolution may be gradual and cumulative, with each generation deviating in small degree from the speech pattern and vocabulary of it’s parents or maybe massive and abrupt - reflecting conquests, migrations, trade contacts and disruption of cultural isolation.

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LANGUAGE

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has 80 words related to camels.

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ARABIC - Language

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contains more than 20 words related to rice.

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JAPANESE - Language

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rich in terms related to ice and snow.

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RUSSIAN - Language

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they are more short - lived social norma with which people are expected to comply with. they may operate as forces of social change ex. styles of clothes, bags, shows, hairdo, houses, cars, and even music.

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FASHIONS, FADS, CRAZES - Components of Culture

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” man is one, but cultures are many “

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ADAPTATION OF CULTURE

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he said there are four principal ways in the process of culture adaptation by..

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JOSEPH FICHTER - Adaptation of Culture

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refers to the independent development of a culture characteristic in two widely separated cultures like pyramids.

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PARALLELISM - Adaptation of Culture

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ZIGGURAT OF TEPE SIALK

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Kashan, Iran - 3000 BCE

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PYRAMID OF DJOSER

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Memphis, Egypt - 2610 BCE

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PYRAMID OF KHUFU

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Cairo, Egypt - 2560 BCE

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ZIGGURAT OF UR

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City of Ur, Iraq - 2000 BCE

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TOMB OF KING KASHTA

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Meroe, Nubia - 500 BCE

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QIN SHI MAUSOLEOM

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Xi’an, China - 200 BCE

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PYRAMID OF THE SUN

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Teotihuacan, Mexico - 100 CE

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TOMB OF THE GENERAL

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City of Ji’an, China - 300 CE

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BOROBUDUR TEMPLE

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Java, Indonesia - 800 CE

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PRANG TEMPLE

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Kol Ker, Cambodia - 940 CE

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EL CASTILLO

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Chichen Itza, Mexico - 1000 CE

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PYRAMIDS OF GÜÍMAR

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Chacona, Tenerife - 1700 CE

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is the much more common process of patterns and traits passing back and forth from one culture to another.

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DIFFUSION - Adaptation of Culture

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is a process that can be traced historically when a long established society breaks up into two or more independent units.

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FISSION - Adaptation of Culture

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is the fusion of two or more cultures into a new one which is somewhat different from it’s predecessors.

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CONVERGENCE - Adaptation of Culture

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the process of socialization plays a very important role in the development of every individual.

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IMITATION - Modes of Acquiring Culture

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this may take the form of formal teaching or training which may take place anywhere the individual finds himself interacting with his fellow humans.

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INDOCTRINATION - Modes of Acquiring Culture

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through the social norms prevailing in one’s social and cultural milieu, the individual acquires a certain pattern of beliefs, values, behavior and actions, this process is further reinforced by a system of reward and punishments found in the culture system.

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CONDITIONING - Modes of Acquiring Culture

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as pointed out by Dean Champion and his associates, “ the range of variations between cultures is almost endless and yet at the same time cultures are almost endless and yet at the same time cultures resemble one another in many important ways. “ . all known cultures recognize certain categories that are often referred to as “ culture universals “.

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VARIABILITY AND CULTURE UNIVERSALS

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this is a universal phenomenon. this arises from the fact that cultures differ and each culture defines reality differently. the members of a society have the tendency to regard their culture as best, and superior to those of others.

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ETHNOCENTRISM

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standards are relative to the culture in which they appear, also known as cultural relativism.

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CULTURAL RELATIVITY

85
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in his book Folk ways, he argued that there are no universal moral standards of right and wrong and good and bad for evaluating cultural phenomena.

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WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER

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all humans tend to believe that their way of life, which has been handed down from generation to generation, is the “right” way.

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CULTURE SHOCK

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this means the dysfunctions in, or inability of a given society to adopt a culture immediately as a result of the disparity in the rate of change between the material and non-material elements of the culture.

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CULTURE LAG concept expunded by WILLIAM OGBURN

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“one thing that characterizes Filipino culture is culture dualism.” the “east west” dichotomy in our culture.

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CULTURAL DUALISM according to ONOFRE D. CORPUZ

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in any society, there are groups of people who do not exactly meet their society’s ideals. they share most of its norms, values, and beliefs, but they change some of society’s ideals to reflect more closely their own needs.

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SUBCULTURES

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is composed of material objects and the techniques of their use by means of which people are able to live.

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TECHNOLOGICAL SUBSYSTEM - Subsystems of Culture

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the sum of those expected and accepted patterns of interpersonal relations that find their outlet in economic, political, military, religious and other associations.

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SOCIOLOGICAL SUBSYSTEM - Subsystems of Culture

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consists of the ideas, beliefs and knowledge of a culture and of the ways in which they are expressed in speech or other forms of communication.

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IDEOLOGICAL SUBSYSTEM - Subsystems of Culture

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refers to all procedures involving partial or total removal of the female external genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons. others use itto suppress a girl’s sexuality or ensure her chastity.

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FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATIONS

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where does it happen, the female genital mutilation? (age 15 - 49)

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AFRICA, MIDDLE EAST AND ASIA

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it means that any cultural object or act may have multiple meanings.

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CULTURAL INTEGRATION

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no culture is, or has been, characterized by a permanently fixed set of material objects, system of organization, or even ideologies, although all of these may be long-enduring within a stable, isolated society.

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CULTURAL CHANGE

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implies changes to a culture that results from ideas created within the social group itself and adopted by the culture. it may involve non-material, material technology, social structure and interaction.

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INNOVATION - Cultural Change

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the process by which a concept, practice, invention, or substance spreads from its point of origin to new territories. usually happens when either people move to a new area and take their culture with them or information about an innovation can spread throughout a culture.

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SPATIAL DIFFUSION - Cultural Change

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the process by which one culture undergoes a major modification by adopting many characteristics of another, usually dominant culture group. it may occur in a conquered or colonized region.

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ACCULTURATION - Cultural Change

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is a system of formal and informal worship and belief in sacred and divine. it refers to a set of beliefs and practices that pertain to sacred things among community believers.

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RELIGION

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it is the latin word that means “to bind together” the bond between god and man.

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RELIGARE - Religion

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in his classical study, “The Elementary Form sof Religious Life” he defines religion as a unified system of beliefs and practices related to sacred things.

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DURKHEIM

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it means all the empirically observable things, those that are knowledgeable through common, everyday experiences, includes all that are not worthy of religious worship.

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PROFANE - Religion divided two mutually exclusive categories

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it consists of all things kept separate or apart from everyday experiences, things that are awe-inspiring and knowable only through extraordinary experiences, that transcend everyday existence; powerful, potentially dangerous.

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SACRED - Religion divided two mutually exclusive categories

105
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provide means for individuals to address or communicate with supernatural beings and forces.

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RITUAL AND PRAYER - Elements of Religion

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this consciousness in believers, recognize that such states may happen and believe that they may be the result of divine or sacred interventions in human affairs.

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EMOTIONS - Elements of Religion

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attempt to explain the origin and nature of sacred things. a system that usually includes a supernatural order and also often a set of values to be applied to daily life.

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BELIEF - Elements of Religion

108
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sects practice the latin on of hands whereby a healer channels into afflicted people and thus heals them.

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DIVINE ENERGY - Belief - Elements of Religion

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work of miracles simply because these objects were once associated with Jesus or the Saints.

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RELICS - Belief - Elements of Religion

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it is the reservoir of supernatural forces that are trapped, the source of the valued quality is a..

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PERSONALIZED DEITY - Belief - Elements of Religion

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structure where specialists can be recruited and trained, religious meetings conducted, an interaction facilitated between society and the members of the religion.

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ORGANIZATION - Elements of Religion

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religious beliefs are evident in all known contemporary cultures.

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THE UNIVERSALITY OF RELIGION

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associated with Homo sapiens at least since Neanderthal times, it graves suggest that the early people believe in an afterlife.

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ARTI-FACTS - The Universality of Religion

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it may have been fertility charms been found in widely separated archaeological sites.

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SCULPTURES OF FEMALES WITH AMPLE SECONDARY SEX CHARACTERISTICS - The Universality of Religion

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the predominant images are animals of the hunt mag reflect a belief that the image had some power over events.

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CAVE PAINTINGS - The Universality of Religion

116
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anthropologist have theorized that early humans thought this could be made more successful if they drew images depicting good fortune.

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HUNTING - The Universality of Religion

117
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strong belief in the afterlife.

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NEANDERTHAL CULTURE

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It has been found where the dead were covered with flowers and buried with food along with the tools they need in the next life.

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BURIAL PLOTS - Neanderthal Culture

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fossils remain serious injuries, such as broken legs, which had healed completely evidence they cared for their sick and injured.

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MEDICINE - Neanderthal Culture

120
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he made objective comparisons between the religions of the fifty or societies he travelled to from his home in Greece. he noticed many similarities among their gods and pointed out evidence of diffusion of religious worship.

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HERODUTUS early 5TH CENTURY BCE

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generally account for the Universality of religion as a way of reducing anxiety or as a means of satisfying a cognitive need for intellectual understanding.

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PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORIES

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usually explain the universality of religion as a reflection of society and its social condition.

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SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES

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human society possesses in different degrees are identified by espiritu.

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TECHNIQUES OF RELIGION

124
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the communication between a believer and supernatural power through speech. it is viewed talking to go or gods.

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PRAYER - Techniques of Religion

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expresses the desire to please the supernatural powers by gift-giving. it may also put the supernatural power under compulsion to repay the gift by doing what one wants.

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SACRIFICE - Techniques of Religion

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this refers to awe coupled with admiration, which one offers to the supernatural power.

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REVERENCE - Techniques of Religion

127
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this means to be controlled by foreknowledge of supernatural power.

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DIVINATION - Techniques of Religion

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this is a sacred prohibition against touching, mentioning, or looking at certain objects, acts, or people. it is a negative presentation of propritiatory devices, i.e., the person should abstain from certain acts which are presumably contrary to the desires of the gods.

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TABOO - Techniques of Religion

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these are patterns of behaviour or practices related to the sacred. it is defined as a prescribed way of performing religious acts and visible symbolic expressions of a religion.

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RITUALS - Techniques of Religion

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involves a number of interconnected and related rituals performed at a given time. it may be defined as a body of formally sanctioned observances learned by observation and experience that indicate an attitude to the supernatural.

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CEREMONY - Techniques of Religion

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a type of interaction with the supernatural is similar to religious beliefs but there is no worship of god or gods. instead, there is an active attempt to coerce spirits or to control supernatural forces. it is used to manipulate and control matters that seem to be beyond human control and that may involve danger and uncertainty.

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MAGIC

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anthropologists and other scholars have not come up with common reasons why people need religion, or how they first came to invent spirits, gods, and other supernatural beings and forces.

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VARIATION IN RELIGIOUS BELIEFS

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some people believe in supernatural forces that have no person-like-character, such as mana, which is thought to inhabit some object but not others.

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SUPERNATURAL FORCES - Variation in Religious Beliefs

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those of non human like god and spirits. those of human origin such as ghosts and ancestral spirits.

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SUPERNATURAL BEINGS - Variation in Religious Beliefs

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praying is asking. performing Voodoo is presumably compelling. when people believe their action can compel the supernatural to act in some particular and intended way anthropologists often refer to the belief and related as magic.

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MAGIC AND RELIGION

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attempts to invoke the spirits to work harm against people, use of materials, objects, and medicines.

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SORCERY AND WITCHCRAFT

137
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secret part-time specialist, who must be enlisted to invoke supernatural malevolence and know how to cause illness and death.

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SORCERERS - Sorcery and Witchcraft

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it is the greatest source of consolation and provides the individual with the peace of mind and comfort.

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FUNCTION OF RELIGION - one

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helps the individuals to understand the meaning of his life. birth, maturity, marriage and death are celebrated and explained by practically.

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FUNCTION OF RELIGION - two

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how simultaneously provides an interpretation of events in life as birth, puberty, marriage and death for the individual and links the individual to a larger community.

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FUNCTION OF RELIGION - three

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helps the person develop a sense of identity and thus contributes to the integration of personality.

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FUNCTION OF RELIGION - four

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form his concept of the world and the relationship between man and the universe. it makes the person become conscious of his strength and weakness.

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FUNCTION OF RELIGION - five

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serves as a social marker, operates like ethnicity or race and as a mark of who they are and what they stand for.

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FUNCTION OF RELIGION - six

144
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deeply involved in activities and commitments to beliefs, to learn more about the importance of it in people’s daily lives.

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FUNCTION OF RELIGION - seven

145
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to some individuals, it is a source status symbol in society.

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FUNCTION OF RELIGION - eight

146
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as a major social institution, perform a number of functions in society.

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RELIGION AND SOCIETY

147
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in many societies, they predominate in the family, in the political and educational institution.

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RELIGION AND SOCIETY - one

148
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seek to make the moral and social orders more similar, actively endorse certain economic policies in some they may even lobby with the government.

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RELIGION AND SOCIETY - two

149
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need to recruit and socialize members, sometimes they offer programs of instructions to ensure the individuals not only learn beliefs and spread it directly or indirectly through changing the social order.

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RELIGION AND SOCIETY - three

150
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promotes social solidarity in the community by acting as a kind of social cement.

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RELIGION AND SOCIETY - four

151
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offer codes of conduct, thereby reinforcing the moral order in the society. it is considered the chief function that provides the source of the ultimate moral order which is beyond question.

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RELIGION AND SOCIETY - five

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helps to legitimize the established and dominant groups within the society.

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RELIGION AND SOCIETY - six

153
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serves as a unifying and integrating force among people of different historical origins and racial backgrounds.

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RELIGION AND SOCIETY - seven

154
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provides the interpretation of different events in a given society.

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RELIGION AND SOCIETY - eight

155
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serve as a source of international contact.

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RELIGION AND SOCIETY - nine

156
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to unify the social system in society, legitimize the foundation of society’s culture and integrate the value system of society.

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RELIGION AND SOCIETY - ten

157
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provides guidance and become a means of social control.

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RELIGION AND SOCIETY - eleven

158
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perform welfare and recreational functions in addition to meeting spiritual needs. some also attend to the temporal and bodily needs of members.

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RELIGION AND SOCIETY - twelve

159
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it is hierarchically organized and has formal statements of beliefs and dogmas.

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A CHURCH - Organization of Religious Life

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this includes all the members of a society within one moral community. it does not aim to change any condition of social inequality created by the secular society and culture and it may legitimize them; like caste system.

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THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH - Organization of Religious Life

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extends itself to all members of society, promotes the ruling classes it has so completely adjusted its ethical system to the political structure of the secular society. because of this, it loses its adherence among the lower classes. like the Russian Orthodox Church

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THE ECCLESIA - Organization of Religious Life

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has no official or unofficial connection with the state, and any political involvement is purely a matter of choice by the leaders, they may either support or oppose any of the states of action or political position.

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THE DENOMINATION - Organization of Religious Life

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refers to a small religious group that adheres strictly to doctrine involving unconditional beliefs or forms of worship. it represents the withdrawal from secular society and an active rejection of secular culture.

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THE SECT - Organization of Religious Life

164
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is an organized group with the primary goal of changing and sometimes the state of education as well.

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A RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT - Organization of Religious Life

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movement that prophecy the end of the world, the destruction of all evil people and their words and the saving of the just like revitalization movements they usually develop in times of stress and crises.

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THE MILLERANARIAN MOVEMENT - Organization of Religious Life

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movement that usually introduces totally new religious ideas and principles.

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THE CULT - Organization of Religious Life

167
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refers to the erosion of beliefs on the supernatural and is associated with modernization and industrialization. it includes a respect for values of rationality, cultural and religious pluralism and tolerance of moral ambiguity, faith in education and belief in civil rights, the rule of law and due process.

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SECULARIZATION - Secularization, Sects, and Cults

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secularization appeals to those who are concerned with worldly success, members of religion who have other worldly and spiritual concerns may break away to form new.

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SECTS - Secularization, Sects, and Cults

169
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often sects are formed in an effort to get back to the more basic or fundamental of the religion from which the member came.

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FUNDAMENTALISM - Secularization, Sects and Cults

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is a form of Protestantism which stresses the gospel of Jesus Christ and the validity of personal conversion experiences. they adopt biblical scripture as basis of their faith, and active preaching of the faith in ones home country and abroad.

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EVANGELICALISM - Secularization, Sects and Cults

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they claim that they’re an authentic, cleansed version of the faith from which they split.

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CULTS - Secularization, Sects and Cults

172
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they claim to be full-fledged religious organizations that attempt to satisfy all the religious needs and converts.

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SOCIAL MOVEMENT CULTS - Secularization, Sects and Cults

173
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anthropologist who discovered remains of burials of Neanderthals, early members of the Homo Sapiens species, tied in fetal position with food and flowed petals, signs that early humans believed in life after death. the earliest available evidence for religious practices comes from Middle East.

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RALP SOLECKI (1971) an anthropologist in Shanidar Cave in Iraq

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belief system that postulates the existence of supernatural forces that can and often do influence human events. these forces are believed to inhabit animate and inanimate objects like people, trees, rocks, places, spirits or ghost.

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SUPERNATURALISM - Major Types of Religion

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the belief in animate, personalized spirits or ghosts of ancestors that take an active interest in and actively. they may be good or bad, not worshipped as gods be manipulated- frightened away, or made to appear-by using the proper magic rituals.

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ANIMISM - Major Types of Religion

176
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people who practice this belief in divine beings -gods and goddesses- who shape human affairs to this belief gods are powerful beings worthy of being worshipped.

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THEISM - Major Types of Religion

177
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the belief of the number of gods, each god and goddess has a particular area of responsibility or sphere of influence such as love and beauty, rain, war, strength and etc

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POLYTHEISM - Theism - Major Types of Religion

178
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the belief of existence in only one god, three religions are known to this - Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

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MONOTHEISM - Theism - Major Types of Religion

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focus is to achieve personal awareness, a higher state of being, and consciousness not on supernatural forces, spirits or being but on correct ways of thinking and behaving. like Buddhism, it’s ideal is to become “one with the universe” by meditation and correct behavior.

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ABSTRACT IDEALS - Major Types of Religion

180
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a Greek word means “divine gift”, the basis of these gifts is an unusual ability to form attachments with others.

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CHARISMA

181
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charisma; he used to indicate the ability of some people to inspire faith, to get others to believe their message.

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MAX WEBER

182
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appears to be the most widely practiced religion in the world today.

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CHRISTIANITY - Major World’s Religions

183
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the single most important document and believed to have been inspired by god.

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BIBLE

184
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most important developments in the recent history of Catholicism was the ecumenical movement often referred to as..

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LIBERALIZATION

185
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sociologically, the non catholic is categorized by this, has often represented the opposite poles on a continuum. some are evangelicals and fundementalists, one third are belonging to the National Council of Churches

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PROTESTANISM

186
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next appears to be the largest world religion, emphasizes an uncompromising belief in one Sumpreme Being and strictly follows The Five Pillars.

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ISLAM - Major World’s Religions

187
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heavily concentrated in north africa, middle east and parts of asia, religion that founded by..

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PROPHET MOHAMMED in 17TH CENTURY

188
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religion of Jesus, believers live all over the world but have a homeland in one deity, Jehovah, Yahweh or God, who cares for the world and for his chosen people, the Jews.

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JUDAISM - Major World’s Religions

189
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is a kaleidoscope of many pieces, with no single founder, central hierarchy or final authority. all-embracing religion, social, economic, literary and artistic implications for society

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HINDUISM - Major World’s Religions

190
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tends to flourish in areas of extensive migration, the doctrine of rebirth in new bodies, tend to justify social and economic inequalities in earth as the result of on purity or sinfulness.

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REINCARNATION

191
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ultimate goal is to achieve a state of nirvana or salvation, is open to all regardless of caste position.

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BUDDHISM - Major World’s Religion

192
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which involves right seeing, thinking, speech, living, effort, mindfulness and meditation.

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THE EIGHTFOLD PATH

193
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the truth of suffering, the truth of the cause of suffering, the truth of the end of suffering, and the truth of the path that leads to the end of suffering

misery is a major feature of life, misery originates from within ourselves from craving for pleasure, this craving can be eliminated and destinations can occur diligently on a specific path.

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FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS

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“the enlightened one”

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SIDDHARTA GAUTAMA 6TH CENTURY BCE

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