uscp (meanings)

• SOCIETY: group of people in the same territory, practicing the same language and culture
• CULTURE: the complex whole which encompasses all the beliefs, traditions, practices, laws, norms, attitudes, symbols and knowledge
• NCCA: National Commission for Culture and the Arts
• UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
• ETHNOCENTRISM: view that ones culture is superior compared to others
• CULTURAL RELATIVISM: ability to understand ones own culture in its own terms, and not make judgement using the standards of other cultures
• CULTURAL DIVERSITY: existence of the variety of culture
• CULTURAL HERITAGE: pertains to the legacy of physical and intangible artifacts that is passed down generation to generation and maintained in the present
• PHYSICAL BIOLOGICAL: seeks to know the origin of the human beings as a species; evolution of our physical body
• CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: focuses on past and present culture
• ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS: formation and evolution of language
• ARCHAEOLOGY: past human culture through their material remains; recovery and analysis of artifacts and fossils
• SOCIOLOGY: human social life, groups and society; individual and group behavior' interactions, social groups and institutions; science of society
• POLITICAL SCIENCE: study of the government and the state