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
They are ordinances of reason enacted to protect the people from the bad effects of outdated mores.
Laws
posited that culture can function in different ways and which we can see its importance as well.
Banaag (2012)
a subject, word, or action that is avoided for religious or social reasons
Taboos
These are specific statements that people hold to be true
Beliefs
_____ or things that stand for something else and that often evoke various reactions and emotions.
Symbols
These are anything that carry a meaning recognized by people who share a culture.
Symbols
The tenets or convictions that people hold to be true.
Example: Superstitious beliefs.
As It tells one what to do, what not to do and how to do things.
Beliefs
Societies are formed through social interaction of its _____
member
Thus, society is important for:
- human connection and interconnectedness
- symbolizing identity of the members
- characterizing the boundaries of a territory
- representing political independence and economic interdependence
- the art or science of government
- the heart of politics is often portrayed as a process of conflict resolution, in which rival views or competing interests are reconciled with one another.”
