CULTURE

Question 1

What is culture according to Tylor, Edward B.

Answer 1

Complex whole, which includes knowledge. belief, art, law, morals, customs, and any other capabilities and habjts acquired by man as a member of society

Question 2

Hwta is culture according to Boas, Franz

Answer 2

embraces all the manifestations of scoial habits pf a community
the reactions of the individual as affected by habjts of the group in which he lives, and the products of human activities as determined by these habits

Question 3

What are the 8 Characteristics of Culture

Answer 3

Man made
transmitted
shared
learned
gratifying
ideational
normative
changing

Question 4

What is non-material culture

Answer 4

group’s way of thinking and going

Question 5

What are elements?

Answer 5

Social heritage- referring to material and the non-material culture

Question 6

What is material culture?

Answer 6

Artifacts, all tangible things, physical and concrete objects of a particular group

example: bridges, houses, chairs

Question 7

Total range of what has been learned or perceived as true

Answer 7

Knowledge

Question 8

What are Norms?

Answer 8

Idea of how people are supposed to behave

standard patterns, rule, and guides of expected behavior

Question 9

behavior patterns of society that are organized and repetitive customs, traditions, and conventions pf a society

Answer 9

Folkways

Question 10

rules of conduct that are associated with intense feelings of right and wrong

Answer 10

Mores

Question 11

formalized norms enacted by people

Answer 11

Laws

Question 12

abstract concepts of what is important and worthwhile

Answer 12

values

Question 13

embody people’s perception pf reality and include the primitive ideas of the universe as well as the scientist’s empirical view of the world

Answer 13

beliefs
(Example: Superstitions)

Question 14

What is ethnocentrism?

Answer 14

Use of one’s culture as a yard stick for judging other cultures

Question 15

what is culture shock?

Answer 15

disorientation that people experience when they come in contact with a fundamentally different culture

Question 16

what is culture relativism

Answer 16

not judging a culture but trying to understand it on its own terms

Question 17

what is Xenocentrism

Answer 17

belief that one’s own lifestyle or ideas are inferior, foreign is superior

Question 18

3 stages in the development of Filipino Value Formatiom (Andre,1989)/ Piaget, Jean

Answer 18

The pre-conditional Stage (childhood)
The conventional Stage (Youth)
The post-conventional stage (Adulthood)

Question 19

concepts which we use as points of reference/ criteria for recognizing, expressing, and evaluating social realities

Answer 19

Values

Question 20

Considered basic building concepts of the Filipino cultural system

Answer 20

Filipino values

Question 21

Standard value (norms) / social institutions examples

Answer 21

school, political system, health system Regious system, Economic

Question 22

Test to determine if it is a value

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1.)extensiveness of value
2.)duration of the value
3.)intensity with which the value is sought or maintained
4.)Prestige of value carriers

Question 23

Definitions of Culture according to Kroeber and Kluckorn

Answer 23

Consists of patterns, explicit and implicit, of and for behavior acquired and transmitted by symbols, constituting the distinctive achievements of human groups

Question 24

What is culture according to Spencer-Oatey

Answer 24

Fuzzy set of basic assumptions and values orientations to life, beliefs, policies, procedures, and behavioral conventions

Question 25

Culture according to Matusmoto, David

Answer 25

Set of attitudes, values, beliefs, and behavior shared by a group of people, but different for each individual, communicated from one generation to the next