1st week

• The set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution or organization. Set of patterns of human activity within a community or social group

  Culture
• Two types of culture

  Material and Non-material
• It refers to the physical objects, resources, and spaces that people use to define their culture.

  Material
• It includes ideas, beliefs, social roles, rules, ethics, and attitudes of a society.

  Non-material
• Characteristics of culture


  Culture is learned, shared, symbolic, dynamic, and integrated
• Refers to the differences in social behaviors that cultures exhibit around the world.

  Cultural Variation
• Examples of Cultural Variation


  Food, Clothing, Features, Religion
• a set of organized beliefs, practices, and systems that most often relate to the belief and worship of a controlling force, such as a personal god or another supernatural being.

  Religion
• Refers to the biological characteristics that distinguish a male from a female

  Sex
• Refers to attitudes and behaviors that the society expect a person based on his/her sex

  Gender Roles
• The high income, the middle income and the low-income class.

  Socio-economic Class
• Refers to the ethnic group who have common culture, language and history

  Ethnicity
• Refers to the group of people who shared inherited physical characteristics such as skin color, facial features and body structure

  Race
• attributes are shaped by the economy, by religion, by culture and traditional values to which an individual belongs.

  Gender
• Refers to political position based on the interests and perspective of social groups

  Political Identities