Module 1 - Lesson 2 Flashcards
Refer to social and cultural regulations and decrees that govern the everyday activities of people, inclusive of its moral and ethical imperatives, customs and cultural practices
Norms
Defined as that complex whole which includes knowledge, beliefs, arts, morals, law, customs, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.
Culture
The key to cultural tolerance
Cultural Sensitivity
___________ and _______ should be celebrated because people are all different in many ways.
Distinctiveness and Diversity
TRUE OR FALSE:
Cultural relativism should result to cultural tolerance to preserve the distinctiveness of people regardless of whichever context they come from.
True
The practice of taking one’s own people, society and culture to be the vantage point from which all else is viewed and judged
Ethnocentrism
The belief that one’s own cultural features are a downgrade in comparison to those of other cultures.
Xenocentrism
TRUE OR FALSE:
Xenocentric individuals does not value commodities, style, culture, or even ideas from another country or culture other than their own.
False; they value
FUNCTIONS OF CULTURE:
This is what separates communal groups from each other. They are known by their distinct traditions and beliefs that they hold dear.
Culture provides identity to the people in society.
FUNCTIONS OF CULTURE:
It is always what the communal group invokes in matters of decisions, practices, and traditions.
Culture unifies people in ways that only those who belong in that society understands.
FUNCTIONS OF CULTURE:
Culture provides the rules of the games in society through our cultural norms. It is very much prescriptive of what is morally right or wrong, what is respectful and not, affecting our patterns of behavior.
Culture influences our concept of morality.
DISTINCT FILIPINO MORAL NORMS:
Gorospe perfectly calls this as the Filipinos’ “conscience from the outside.”
Group-centeredness or Groupthink
DISTINCT FILIPINO MORAL NORMS:
An example of this is “Even if there is already a national smoking ban in the country at present, there are still those who disregard the law since they are not being caught by authorities anyway”
The “Don’t be caught” attitude is based on shame or fear of the authority figure.
DISTINCT FILIPINO MORAL NORMS:
Even though we are aware of it, there are still a lot of Filipinos who do not really mind about changing the status quo by invoking their rights of suffrage but are just so indifferent about it.
Complacency when one is aware but is not concerned.
DISTINCT FILIPINO MORAL NORMS:
We have that instinct of justifying an act no matter how wrong it is.
Rationalization
