L3: CONCEPTS, ASPECTS, AND CHANGES IN/OF CULTURE AND SOCIETY

Question 1

Who said that “Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being”?

Answer 1

Thomas Carlyle

Question 2

It is a composite or multifarious area that comprises beliefs, practices, values, attitudes, norms, artifacts, symbols, knowledge, and everything that a the person learns and shares as a member of society.

Answer 2

Culture

Question 3

What are the two types of culture?

Answer 3

Material and Non-material

Question 4

It refers to any information received and perceived to be true

Answer 4

Knowledge

Question 5

This is the perception of accepted reality. It is the existence of things whether material or non-material

Answer 5

Beliefs

Question 6

These are established expectations of society as to how a person is supposed to act depending on the requirements of the time, place and situation.

Answer 6

Social Norms

Question 7

SOCIAL NORMS

The patterns of repetitive behavior which become habitual and conventional part of living

Answer 7

Folkways

Question 8

SOCIAL NORMS

The set of ethical standards and moral obligations as dictates of reason that distinguishes human acts as right or wrong or good from bad

Answer 8

Mores

Question 9

SOCIAL NORMS

Anything held to be relatively worthy , important, desirable or valuable.

Answer 9

Values

Question 10

These allow people to fit into and adapt to their respective environments.

Answer 10

Cultural Behaviours

Question 11

ASPECTS OF CULTURE

The cumulative and social nature of human ideas, activities, and artifacts gives a tremendous potential source of variability in adaptation.

Answer 11

Dynamic, Flexible and Adaptive

Question 12

ASPECTS OF CULTURE

This means that various members of a society or group commonly share idea, activities and artifacts. Hence, the behavior of people in a group or society often becomes socially and conventionally standardized in form and manner.

Answer 12

Shared and contested

Question 13

ASPECTS OF CULTURE

Behavioral patterns that constitute a specific culture are not genetically or biologically determined. Through process of socialization or enculturation, a person acquires the prevailing attitudes and beliefs forms of behavior appropriate to the social roles he or she occupies, and the behavioral patterns and values of the society into which he or she is born.

Answer 13

Learning through Socialization or Enculturation

Question 14

ASPECTS OF CULTURE

Social Interactions as commonly viewed, implies theories of reciprocity, complimentarity and mutuality of response. The patterns of social interaction, may be viewed as inherited characteristics of participants merely given the opportunity to be exposed.

Answer 14

Patterned Social Interactions

Question 15

ASPECTS OF CULTURE

For a society, or group, ideas, activities and artifacts are not only shared; their arrangement more or liess fit together and interlock to form a consistent whole.

Answer 15

Integrated and times Unstable

Question 16

ASPECTS OF CULTURE

Acquired through learning, cultural ideas, and artifacts are handed down from generation to generation as a super organic inheritance, which means it is inherently passed on through generations.

Answer 16

Transmitted through Socialization and Enculturation

Question 17

ASPECTS OF CULTURE

Language is a shared of spoken (often written) symbols and rules used in meaningful ways. Language has been called “ the store house of culture”. It is the primary means of capturing, communicating, discussing, changing, and passing shared understandings to new generations

Answer 17

Requires language and other forms of Communication

Question 18

Characteristics of Culture. (7)

Answer 18

1. Culture is social because it is a product of behavior
2. Culture varies from society to society
3. Culture is shared
4. Culture is learned
5. Culture is transmitted among members of society
6. Culture is continuous and cumulative
7. Culture is gratifying and idealistic

Question 19

FUNCTION OF CULTURE. (4)

Answer 19

1. CULTURE DEFINES SITUATIONS
2. CULTURE DEFINES ATTITUDES, VALUES AND GOALS
3. CULTURE DEFINES MYTHS, LEGENDS AND THE SUPERNATURAL
4. CULTURE PROVIDES BEHAVIOR PATTERNS