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it is a sociological term that refers to a constitution of social actors and constant interaction

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society

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it is an anthropological term refers to a set of practices and tradition that define a specific society

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culture

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it is everything that a person learns as a member of a society

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culture

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it is a people’s way of life

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culture

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described culture as “that complex whole, which encompasses beliefs, practices, values, attitudes, laws, norms, artifacts, symbols, knowledge, and everything that a person learns and shares as a member of a society”

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E.B. Taylor or Edward Burnett Taylor

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an english anthropologist, who first coined the term “culture” and the 18th century

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E.B. Taylor

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it is a unique possession of man

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culture

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List all the characteristics of culture

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• culture is everything
• culture is learned
• culture is shared
• culture affects biology
• culture is adaptive
• culture is maladaptive
• culture changes

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the unique quality of man that separates him from the lower animals

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culture

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includes all that man acquires in his social life

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culture

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the powerful agent in shaping the decisions and actions of humans in a given situation

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culture

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2 Types / Kind of culture

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• Material Culture
• Non-material culture

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all the tangible and visible parts of the culture

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Material culture

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IDENTIFY WHAT CHARACTERISTIC OF CULTURE IS BEING DEFINED OR DESCRIBED

it is what a person has, does, and thinks as part of a society

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Culture is everything

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IDENTIFY WHAT CHARACTERISTIC OF CULTURE IS BEING DEFINED OR DESCRIBED

Enculturation, Acculturation, and Deculturation

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Culture is learned

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All intangible parts of culture

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Non-material culture

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a set of beliefs, attitudes, and practices that an individual learns through his or her family, school, church, and other social institutions

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culture

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IDENTIFY WHAT CHARACTERISTIC OF CULTURE IS BEING DEFINED OR DESCRIBED

the set of behaviors attitudes and beliefs that a person possess is part of a greater collection of values and ideas that is own and practiced by the members of the society

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Culture is Shared

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Main vehicle of culture

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language

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IDENTIFY WHAT CHARACTERISTIC OF CULTURE IS BEING DEFINED OR DESCRIBED

humans are born into cultures that have values and beauty and body; they alter their bodies to fit into the physiological norms that are dictated by culture

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culture affects biology

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IDENTIFY WHAT CHARACTERISTIC OF CULTURE IS BEING DEFINED OR DESCRIBED

culture is a tool for survival that humans use in response the pressures of their environment

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culture is adaptive

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well known for building igloos during fishing and hunting expeditions

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Inuits of Arctic Region

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these dome-shaped homes provide temporary shelter for the mobile group

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igloos

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wearing them is a sign of beauty in Africa, and women are those who are expected to wear them to appear desirable to men

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African Lip Plates

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this type of culture or traditions their potential for good marriage; this woman are subjected to decades of physical alteration that involves the restructuring of their feet to achieve "lotus feet"
Chinese Women's Foot Binding
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The ideal length of about 7.5 centimeters (3 inches)
Lotus feet
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Tents made of animal skin, as their temporary homes of Inuits during summer
Tupiqs
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another adopted mechanism that is practiced in most cultures
Creation of food taboos
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these are the socially constructed and accepted prohibitions on the consumption of several food items
food taboos
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according to him, food taboos are responses to the environmental processes on food supplies in this areas
Marvin Harris
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IDENTIFY WHAT CHARACTERISTIC OF CULTURE IS BEING DEFINED OR DESCRIBED Culture can cause problems for the people who subscribe to it; these problems arise when environment has changed and culture has remained the same
Culture is Maladaptive
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IDENTIFY WHAT CHARACTERISTIC OF CULTURE IS BEING DEFINED OR DESCRIBED Culture can cause problems for the people who subscribe to it; these problems arise when environment has changed and culture has remained the same
Culture is Maladaptive
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IDENTIFY WHAT CHARACTERISTIC OF CULTURE IS BEING DEFINED OR DESCRIBED culture is never static
culture changes
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it is seen as an outcome of multiple interactions of people upon which succeeding interactions are made meaningful and possible
society
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IDENTIFY WHAT CHARACTERISTIC OF CULTURE IS BEING DEFINED OR DESCRIBED culture is continuously reinvented by people
culture changes
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it only exist if there are people interacting and their interactions constitute the process that defines it
society
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a process in which people continuously interact with one another
society
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the three classical theories of the origin of society
• the structural-functional / Structural Functionalism and Social Order • the conflict theory and Conflict • Symbolic Interactionism and Meaning-making
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it argues that society is made possible by cooperation and interdependence
The Structural Functionalism and Social Order
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it brings about a new set of relations and interactions which produces new dyanism in society
conflict
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humans as social beings have the capacity to generate meeting from their surroundings
symbolic interactionism and meaning making
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anything that can stand as a representation of something
symbols
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Defined society as a reality in its own right
Emile Durkheim
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Defined society as a social organism possessing a harmony of structure and function
August Comte
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Key importance to society, which society cannot survive without
collective consciousness
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it is a fundamental sociological concept that refers to the set of shared beliefs, ideas, attitudes, and knowledge that are common to a social group or society
Collective consciousness
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Defined society as a total complex of human relationships in so far as they grow out of the action in terms of means-end relationship
Talcott Parsons
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refers to the methods by which one achieves a goal
Means
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Defined society as an exchange of gestures that involves the use of symbols
George Herbert Mead
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Defined society as a collection of individuals united by certain relations or mode of behavior that marks individuals of from others who do not enter into this relations or who differ from them in behavior
Morris Ginsberg
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define society as the complex of organized associations and institutions with a community
George Douglas Cole
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define society as a system of usages and procedures of authority and mutual aid of many groupings and divisions, of control of human behavior and liberties
Robert MacIver and Charles Page
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these are guides in the performance of roles and in everyday actions and interactions
rules
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they provide order in a system characterized by the presence of many actors with different businesses and agenda to pursue
rules
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Who defined culture and society as "A society is an organized group of individuals. A culture is an organized group of learned responses. The individual is a living organism capable of independent thought, feeling, and action ,but his independence is limited and all his resources are profoundly modified by contact with the society and culture in which he develops."?
Ralph Linton
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refers to the outcome of an effort
ends
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the process of learning your own culture
enculturation
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culture can be modified to accomodate desirable traits from other cultures
Acculturation
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the reason of the culture has been lost and even the cultural trait itself is in the process of being forgotten
Deculturation

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