UCSP L2 Flashcards
Culture
A complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, customs, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by people as members of society.
Culture
is a person’s social heritage or the customary ways in which groups organize their ways of behaving thinking and feeling.
Culture
2 Types of culture
1.Material culture
2.Non-material culture
includes the physical objects that can be seen, touched and felt by others.
Material culture
contains ideas, values or attitudes that a culture is shaped. The knowledge, beliefs, norms and rules that form a society and its peoples’ behavior can be considered as non-material culture.
Non-material culture
Culture’s standard for discerning what is good and just in society.
Values
These are the standard and expected behavior within a society.
Norms
These are culturally defined standards by which people assess desirability, goodness, and beauty and that serve as broad guidelines for social living.
Values
2 types of norms
1.Formal norms
2.Informal norms
they are norms that has a firm control to moral and ethical behavior.
Mores(Moral norms)
Morally acceptable or unacceptable and
often linked to religious rules
and are stricter than folkways
Mores (Formal norms)
Who coined the term folkways?
William Graham Sumner coined the term in 1906
guide people’s behavior in much the same way that laws do, but they are not codified as laws are.
Folkways
are passed down from one generation to another and become part of our social heritage.
Folkways