UCSP Quiz 3 Reviewer Flashcards
is an experience a person may
have when one moves to a cultural
environment which is different from one’s own;
it is also the personal disorientation a person
may feel when experiencing an unfamiliar way
of life due to immigration or a visit to a new
country, a move between social environments,
or simply transition to another type of life.
Culture shock
is a counterpart concept of
socialization
It refers to the gradual acquisition of the
characteristics and norms of a culture or group
by a person, another culture.
Enculturation
Individuals who have stayed for quite a good portion of their lives(formative years) in foreign culture may be
shocked by their birth culture once exposed to it
again.
THIRD CULTURE SHOCK/RE ENTRY
SHOCK
refers to similarities in words and
actions which can directly observed. Ex: the
way teens dress, mannerisms, and
conversations.
Explicit
on the other hand, exist in abstract
form which are not quite obvious.
Implicit
CHARACTERISTICS OF CULTURE
- Culture is social because it is the product of
behavior. - Culture varies from society to society
- Culture is shared
- Culture is learned
- Culture is transmitted among members of
society. - Culture is continuous and cumulative
- Culture is gratifying and idealistic
FUNCTIONS OF CULTURE
- Culture defines situations
- Culture defines attitudes, values
and goals - Culture defines myths, legends,
and supernatural - Culture provides behavior patterns
IT CAN EITHER BE A RESEARCH
DESIGN OR A SPECIFIC
RESEARCH METHOD WHERE
PEOPLE ARE OBSERVED IN
THEIR NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
RATHER THAN IN A FORMAL
RESEARCH SETTING.
ETHNOGRAPHY
NATIONAL FLAGS,
HISTORICAL SITES SUCH AS
ABODE OF HEROES/SIGNIFICANT
AND OBJECTS)
TANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE-
(VISIBLE)
NATONAL ANTHEM,
LITERARY CREATIONS, MUSIC,
DANCES, ETC.
INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE-
(NONMATERIAL)
Culture constantly changes and
adapts to the current state of
society. It continuously restores
itself whenever customs do not fit
in the current situation anymore. It
does not remain stagnant.
DYNAMIC, FLEXIBLE AND
ADAPTIVE
If culture is learned
and shared, it is also
contested in different
ways and situations.
Because of diversity,
culture is always
subjected to debate
and analysis.
SHARED AND CONTESTED
is the “mutual influence of two or more
people on each other’s behavior and is the foundation of the whole social order “
SOCIAL INTERACTION
ØREFERS TO NORMS FOR ROUTINE AND CASUAL
INTERACTIONS.
FOLKWAYS
Ø”MUST FOLKWAYS”/ necessary and essential
to the welfare of the group.
MORES
ØFormally enacted by the proper
authorities so people would act
accordingly.
LAWS
are the most stable,
uniform, formal and highly
structured.
They have well established
social patterns, roles and
relations that people are
expected to carry out for the
purpose of maintaining the
stability of these of these
relatively permanent structures
like the family, government,
church and business.
Instituitions
ØShort-lived and not practiced by the
whole.
ØCollective behavior that develops within
a culture, a generation, or a social group
FASHIONS, FADS, AND CRAZES
It is the belief that your native culture is
the most natural or superior way of
understanding the world
ETHNOCENTRISM
The idea that all norms, beliefs, and
values are dependent on their
cultural context and should be
treated as such.
CULTURAL RELATIVISM
REFERS TO A PREFERENCE FOR
THE FOREIGN .
XENOCENTRISM
THE FEAR OF WHAT IS PERCEIVED AS
FOREGN OR STRANGE.
* CAN BE SEEN IN THE RELATIONS AND
PERCEPTION OF AN IN-GROUP
TOWARD AN OUT-GROUP.
XENOPHOBIA
Are used to transfer
culture, ideologies or
beliefs from a group to
another group of
people, or from our
elders to the new
generations of people.
SOCIAL SYMBOLS
is anything that
carries meaning, and is
recognized by people
who shares a culture.
-It preserve traditions or
beliefs of a certain
group of people.
-Symbol
- It is a physical manifestation that
signifies the ideology of a
particular culture or that merely
CULTURAL SYMBOLS
These are symbols used
in production,
distribution, and
consumption of goods
and services like
currency, market,
labor, demands and
other economic
activities.
ECONOMIC SYMBOL
is symbolism that is used to
represent a political
standpoint or party. The
symbolism can occur in
various media including
banners,
POLITICAL SYMBOL
A lifelong social experience by which people
develop their human potential and learn culture.
socialization.
family, community, mass media, religion
agent of socialization.
The process by which people learn their requirements of
their surrounding culture and acquire the values and
behaviors appropriate or necessary in that culture.
enculturation.
a set of situations (i.e. imitation, play, game,
generalized others) where individuals learn to
assume roles and meet the increasing level of
complexity of each situation.
Self
Mimicking behaviors of the significant others.
Preparatory or Imitation Stage-
take the role of people they interact with-
significant others
Play Stage-
develop the full sense of self, take roles
of everyone else involved in the game.
Game Stage-
–understanding the
emergence of the “social” self of human being.
-understand what kind of behavior is expected or
appropriate in different social settings.
Adult Stage(Generalized Others)
is the development of
an individual’s distinct personality.
Identity Formation
is the sum of a being’s
knowledge and understanding of his or
herself (e.g. physical, psychological and
social attributes)
Self concept
is an awareness of oneself.
self-consciousness
can be proscriptive (stating what
we should not do) or prescriptive (stating
what we should do).
Norms
are widely observed norms while
folkways norms for routine or casual
interaction.
Mores
are culturally defined standards that people
use to decide what is desirable, good, and beautiful,
and that serve as broad guidelines for social living.
Values
refers to a social position that a person holds
Status
refers to all the statuses a person holds at a given
time.
Status set
is a social position a person receives at birth
or takes on involuntarily later in life.
Ascribed status
refers to a social position a person taken on
voluntarily that reflects personal identity and effort.
Achieved status
refers to the behavior expected of someone who
holds a particular status
Role
is used to identify a
number of roles attached to a single status.
Role set
is the conflict among the roles connected to
two or more statuses due to competing demands.
Role strain
is the anticipated behavior
to follow.
Conformity
is simply more than
noncomformity or a behavior that
departs significantly from social
expectations. It is looked at in terms of
group processes, definitions, and
judgments, and not just as unusual
individuals or personal acts.
Deviance
are people who believe in both the established cultural goals of society, as well as the
normative means for attaining those goals. They follow the rules.
Conformists
are individuals who do not believe in the established cultural goals of society, but they do
believe in and abide by the means for attaining those goals.
Ritualists
are those individuals that accept the cultural goals of society but reject the conventional
methods of attaining those goals. These people usually have a blatant disregard for the conventional
methods that have been established in attaining wealth. These are generally those we regard as
criminals.
Innovators
are individuals who reject both the cultural goals and the accepted means of attaining
those goals. They simply avoid both the goals and means established by society without replacing those
norms with their own countercultural forces.
Retreatists
not only reject both the established cultural goals and the accepted means of attaining those
goals; they also substitute new goals and new means of attaining these goals.
Rebels
This focuses on a set of postulations
Labeling Theory
is important in
producing conformity to social
rules and it is when this conformity
is broken that deviance occurs.
Socialization
