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• Culture


  The customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group; The system of knowledge, norms and values more or less shared by members of a particular society (in general).
• Norms


  Rules and expectation by which the position of each individual is influenced by his or her achieved status.
• Mores


  The essential or characteristic customs and conventions of a community.
• Bird’s Eye View


  Culture is a means of society used in responding to nature. It is not just meant to respond merely to various forces of the physical environment but defines a person as well as a human being endowed with his inherent freedom and rationality. Perspective behaviors and attitudes towards life and its environment are redefined, however, as a result of the advancement of science and technology that has generated an avalanche of changes in various shapes and curves. He is bound to adapt or suit himself to enable him to respond to changes caused by various external factors.
• Aspects of culture

  • Language
  • Customs
  • Values
  • Norms
  • Mores
  • Rules
  • Tools
  • Technologies
  • Products
  • Organization
  • Institutions
• Culture allows people to understand the world and define places within it</b>
• Culture


  Through culture, people and groups define themselves, conform to society's shared values and contribute to society
• Culture


  Consists of the beliefs, behaviors, objects and other characteristics common to the members of a particular group or society
• Culture renders people's lives meaningful, a source of identity and self-esteem
• Culture permits communities and generations to share a common memory</b>
• CULTURE

  Is everything made, learned or shared by the members of a society including values, beliefs, and behaviour and material objects.
• Material Culture


  Material culture is the visible part. It may be the food we eat, your cars, your houses or anything that members of society make use and share.
• Non-Material Culture 


  It is intangible but this influences our behavior like our language, beliefs, values, behavior of a family
• Normative


  establishing, relating to, or deriving from a standard or norm; in culture, serves as a model or norms of people’s action.
• Cumulative


  refers to the process by which traditions are gradually modified; improved over time.
• Folkways


  distinguish between right and rude; it is the measurement of behavior but not

  approved by society.
• Albeit


  making progress
• Characteristic of Culture

  Culture as learned

  Culture as normative

  Culture as cumulative

  Culture as adaptive

  Culture as diverse
• Culture as learned


  Culture is not ascribed or naturally embedded in the person’s being. It is, therefore, not inherent or inborn. It is instead acquired.
• Culture as normative


  Culture is not just confined to knowing things, that is, of their concepts and meanings. It not simply meant to know the truth of things but also of the goodness of things. In other words, culture serves as the norm of the people’s action. As normative, culture guides people to do things in conformity with the people’s accepted norms which they use to regulate their ways.
• Culture as cumulative 


  Culture, which exists along in time and place is passed from one generation to the next through the medium of language and behavior which make the continuity of culture possible.
• Culture as adaptive.


  As a being-in-the-world, a person lives in a given time and place. He lives in a geographical setting. This geographical setting includes all that are found in the world such as land, seas, mountains, forest, weather and the like. Culture adapts itself to and around its geographical setting.
• Culture as diverse

  Culture is different since there are various social structures, beliefs, values and other practices that people use in adapting to a given situation.
• Enculturation


  Is the gradual acquisition of the characteristics and norms of a culture or group by a person. It can be an absence of prior knowledge. Enculturation is also essential for survival. For example, infants do not possess culture at birth.
• Acculturation

  When individuals or groups of people adapt to or borrow traits from another culture. It is learning how to keep your culture while interacting successfully with other cultures
• Culture


  Serves as the person’s eyeglasses in looking at things and doing things
• Every human person carries with him his culture wherever he goes, whenever he does and whoever he is
• Non-material culture


  The intangible part of culture that includes language, beliefs, values, behavior of a family patterns and political system
• Material culture


  The visible part of culture
• Culture originates from the Latin ‘colere’ which means to cultivate
• Culture is the heritage, the gift of our ancestors
• Culture

  The visible part (material culture) and the intangible part (non-material culture) that includes language, beliefs, values, behavior of a family patterns and political system
• Cultural Diffusion and Assimilation - Cultural Relativism Week 2.
• Cultural Assimilation

  losing your own culture in order to become more like the dominant culture.
• Ethnocentrism


  judging another culture solely by the values and standards of one's own culture.
• Cultural Diffusion


  The richness of a culture rests upon the degree of cultural diffusion made accessible to people generated by influences from other cultures through various ways of interaction such as trading. Cultural Diffusion is the spread of cultural beliefs and social activities from one group of people to another.
• Cultural Assimilation


  Is the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a dominant group or assume the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group. It is the process of losing who you are in order to become more like the dominant culture- to become similar and lose your distinction.
• Cultural Relativism


  Is the idea that a person's beliefs, values, and practices should be understood based on that person's own culture, rather than be judged against the criteria of another. In music, for example, the song parents love to listen to may not be the kind of music that their children enjoy listening to and every time parents hear the music of their children, they are not prohibiting it to listen. Why? Because they absolutely acknowledge their different taste in music.
• ANTHROPOLOGY


  cannot provide an answer to a question of which societies are better than others, simply. because the discipline does not ask it.
• ANTHROPOLOGIST


  If asked what is the good life, the ANTHROPOLOGIST will have to answer that every society has its own definition of it.