Values: Represents The Standards We Use To Evaluate The Desirability of Things

Download as pptx, pdf, or txt
Download as pptx, pdf, or txt
You are on page 1of 15

COMPONENTS OF

CULTURE
2. Values
 represents the standards we use to evaluate the
desirability of things
 are a culture’s general orientations toward life—its
notions of what is good and bad, what is desirable and
undesirable.
 the totallity of behavior with degree of emotional
investment and beliefs.
MAJOR VALUES OF
SOCIETIES
 Achievement and Success
 Activity and Work
 Moral Orientation
 Humanitarianism
 Efficiency and Practicality
FILIPINO VALUES
A. Emotional Closeness and
Security in the Family

- Family as the safest place


in the society
- Family never leave us
until the end
FILIPINO VALUES
B. The Authority Value

- Refers to the approval by


the authority figure and by
society’s surrogate.
FILIPINO VALUES
B. Economic and Social
Betterment

- Having work, to support


needs basically in
financial aspect
- often we need to work to
repay our family’s
sacrifices (utang na loob)
FILIPINO VALUES
B. Patience, Suffering,
Endurance

- Pinoys are in nature


patient, knows how to
contain suffering and
overcome it by endurance
COMPONENTS OF
CULTURE
3. Language
 refers to a systems of symbols that have specific
and arbitrary meaning in a given society
 It provides the principal means through which
culture is transmitted and the foundation on
which the complexity of human thought and
experience rests.
COMPONENTS OF
CULTURE
4. Fashion, fads, crazes
 brought by social change in which people are
expected to comply
MODES OF ACQUIRING
CULTURE
1. Imitation
2. Indoctrination
3. Conditioning
CHARACTERISTICS OF
CULTURE
1. Culture is learned and acquired
2. Culture is shared and transmitted
3. Culture is social
4. Culture gratifies human needs
5. Culture is adaptive
6. Culture is cumulative
OTHER CONCEPTS OF
CULTURE
Subcultures
- A particular group
creates a different
culture out of their
present culture
OTHER CONCEPTS OF
CULTURE
Culture Shock
- Is felt when witnessed
different culture from
the culture that you
belong with
- the difficulty people
have adjusting to a new
culture that differs
markedly from their
own.
OTHER CONCEPTS OF
CULTURE
Cultural Lag
- inability of a given
society to adopt a culture
immediately as a result
of a change in culture
- the phenomenon through
which new patterns of
behavior may emerge, even
though they con ict with
traditional values.
OTHER CONCEPTS OF
CULTURE
Cultural Dualism
- A society easily can
practice two or more
culture
END OF CHAPTER

“You don't have to burn books to destroy


a culture. Just get people to stop
reading them”

You might also like