DLP 2 - Culture, Society and Politics

• Culture - Language, Food, Jokes, Manners, Celebrations, Religion, Medical Cure, Clothes and Dressing, Working Schedules, Folk Art.
• Non Material Culture - Behavior, gesture & habits || Ideas || Language & Symbols || Religion
• Material Culture - Tech Tools || Food || Architectural Structures || Fashion and Accessories
• Knowledge – refers to any information received and perceived to be true
• Beliefs – the perception of accepted reality (refers to the existence of things whether material or non-material
• Social norms – these are established expectations of society as to how a person is supposed to act depending on the requirements of the time, place or situation.
• Folkways – patterns of repetitive behaviour which becomes habitual and conventional part of living.
• Mores – set of ethical standards and moral obligations as dictates of reason that distinguishes             human acts as right or wrong or good from bad.
• Values – anything held to be relatively worthy, important, desirable or valuable.
• Technology – practical application of knowledge in converting raw materials into finished products.
• Aspects of Culture - Dynamic, flexible, and adaptive; Shared and contested; Learned through socialization or enculturation; Patterned social interaction; Integrated and at times unstable; Transmitted through socialization; Requires language and other forms of communication.
• Ethnocentrism - It is a perception that arises from the fact that cultures differ, and each culture defines reality differently. Judging another culture solely by the values and standards of one’s own culture.
• Culture Relativism - The attempt to judge behavior according to its cultural context and the principle that an individual person's beliefs and activities should be understood by others in terms of that individual's own culture are key components of cultural relativism.