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originated from the Latin word ‘colere’ , which means to cultivate

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Culture

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consist of the beliefs, behaviors, objects and other characteristics common to the members of a particular group or society

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Culture

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2 PARTS OF CULTURE

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• MATERIAL CULTURE
• NON-MATERIAL CULTURE

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It may be the food we eat, your cars, your houses, or anything that members of society make use and share

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Material Culture

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It is the intangible but this influences our behavior like our language, beliefs, values, behaviour of a family patterns and political system

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Non-Material Culture

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It govern our lives by giving us implicit and explicit guidance on what to think and believe, how to behave, and how to interact with others

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Norms

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Mark the distinction between rude and polite behavior, so they exert a form of social pressure on us to act and interact in certain ways, but failure to observe them does not incur a moral significance. We observe them in our casual social interaction and which are repetitive in nature.

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Folkways

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More stringent than folkways, as they determine what is considered moral and ethical behavior as they are structure to distinguish between right and wrong. Violating them typically results in disapproval or contrasting

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Mores

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An adamant negative norms; it is a strict prohibition of behavior that society holds so strongly that violating it results in extreme disgust or expulsion

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Taboo

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Norm that is formally inscribed at the state or federal level and is enforced by police or government law enforcement agencies.

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Law

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4 types of Norms

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• Folkways
• Mores
• Taboo
• Law

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4 Ambivalence of Filipino Values

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1. Pakikisama or Camaraderie
2. Close family ties
3. Utang na loob
4. Hiya

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The value of belongingness and loyalty to the small in-group with sensitivity to the feelings of others on the principle of “give and take”

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Pakikisama or camaraderie

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Blood relationship, blood is thicker than water

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Close family ties

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Expressing one’s debt of gratitude to someone who has done good things to you is the most appropriate thing to do

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Utang na loob

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A sense of shame or a social conscience that prevent him or her from violating social norms

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Hiya

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The spread of cultural beliefs and social activities from one group of people to another

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Cultural Diffusion

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He invented the first ever electrical long-distance communication

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Samuel F.B. Morse

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the process in which the minority group or culture comes to resemble a dominant group or assume the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group

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Cultural Assimilation

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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.

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Cultural Relativism

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

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Culture as learned

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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. culture guides people to do things in conformity with the people’s accepted norms which they use to regulate their ways.

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Culture as Normative

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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

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Culture as cumulative

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Culture adapts itself to and around its geographical setting. How culture is formed and assimilated by
the people largely depends on the environment where it is situated.

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Culture as adaptive

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

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Culture as diverse

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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.

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Acculturation

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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.

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Enculturation

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CHARACTERISITICS OF CULTURE

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1. Culture as learned 2. Culture as normative 3. Culture as cumulative 4. Culture as adaptive 5. Culture as diverse

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This term comes from Greek ‘ethnos’ meaning ‘a people' means evaluating other people from one’s vantage-point and describing them in one’s own terms. It is judging another culture solely by the values and standards of one's own culture

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Ethnocentrism

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The desire to engage in the element or another culture rather than ones' own.

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Xenocentrism

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It is the thinking that foreign talents and product are way more better than the local ones

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Colonial Mentality

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The use of economic, political, cultural or other pressure to control or influence others

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Neo-Colonialism

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was one of the earliest systems of writing, invented by Sumerians in ancient Mesopotamia. It is distinguished by its wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets, made by means of a blunt reed for a stylus. The Akkadian follow Sumerian’s writing in clay tablet.

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Cuneiform

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The belief of greek gods and goddesses lost when Chritianity spread in Rome and Greece.

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Greek Mythology