Lesson 4.2 Flashcards
• pays close attention to value, traditions, norms, and belief systems
• The knowledge of such matters is essential if one is to interpret correctly the interaction among the component parts of the social system.
Culture as a setting factor
• Kaugalian as often referred as culture
• It is notoriously difficult to change not because the beliefs and practices come with our genes but because they have been shaped over time, hammered into our collective psyches.
Pinoy Kasi Column
Cultural traits are being studied in terms of the possible contribution they make to a population’s adaptation to its ecosystem rather than as being part of a coherent system in their own right.
Conceptual approaches to Human Ecology
protecting the society rather than rehabilitating the criminal
Innate Human Nature Orientation
Nature is superior over man
Subjugation to nature orientation
Man and nature are interdependent with each other
Harmony with Nature
man is superior over nature.
Mastery over nature
All communities have some concern with the past, the present and the future, but they differ in the importance accorded to each.
Time Orientation
They tend to be complacent and take pride in what their ancestors have done more than in what they have done themselves and therefore tend to resist change and stress conformity almost as an end in itself.
Past Orientation
People are contented with the existing situation.
Present Orientation
People think in terms of their children’s future. People hope of improving not only their material status but their social status as well.
Future Orientation
Emphasizes activities just for the maintenance of life.
Being orientation
Emphasizes activities for the development of all aspects of the self as an integrated whole.
Being in becoming orientation
Emphasizes activities that result in the accomplishment of certain tasks within certain kind of standards.
Doing orientation
There are three subdivisions that are present in some form in all systems of human relations but receive different emphasis from community to community.
Relational Orientation