This document discusses the key concepts of culture, society, and politics. It defines culture as the arts, customs, and habits that characterize a society or nation. It then explains some core elements of culture, including norms, ideas, material culture, and symbols. It provides examples of different types of norms like folkways, mores, and laws. The document also discusses concepts like values, technology, beliefs, artifacts, arts, and traditions in the context of defining and understanding culture.

1. Understanding
Culture, Society
and
Politics
Teacher: Mr. Evan Montayre

3. It is the arts, customs and
habits that characterize a
particular society or nation.

4. 1.Norms
2.Ideas
3.Material Culture
4.Symbols

5. This are the guidelines people are
supposed to follow in their relation with on another; They are
shared rules that specify what is right or wrong and the
appropriate and inappropriate behavior.
Are society as to how an established expectations person is
supposed to act depending on the requirements of the time,
place or situation.
Example:
We are supposed to be sad and depressed when a family dies.

6. Types of Norms
A.Folkways
B.Mores
C.Laws

7. The patterns of repetitive behavior which becomes habitual and
conventional part of living.
These are everyday habits; customs, traditions, and conventions
people obey without giving much thought to the matter.
Example:
Kenneth eats with their bare hands and walk along the streets barefooted.
Tuvilla eat using spoon and fork and walk wearing slippers and shoes

8. Division of Norms
A.Folkways
B.Mores
C.Laws

9. The set of ethical standards and moral obligations as dictates of
reason that distinguishes humans acts as right or wrong or good from
bad.
These are the norms people consider vital to their well-being and
most cherished values they are special customs with moral and ethical
significance, which held and emphasized

10. Two Kinds of Mores
• Positive Mores / Duty
• Negative Mores / Taboo

11. Other term of “Duty” or “Thou shall behavior”
Duty (social responsibility) which refers to the behavior, which must
and ought to be done because they are ethically and morally good.
Example:
Giving assistance to the poor and the needy; Thou shall love God
above all

12. Other term for “Taboo” or “Thou shall not behavior”
Taboo (social prohibition) which refers to societal prohibitions on
certain acts which must not be done because they are illegal, but
unethical and or executed
Example:
Prohibitions against incest
and murder
Note: Criminals who commit heinous
crimes, such as rape, murder, plunder
and economic sabotage

13. These are the formalized norms enacted by people vested with
legitimate authority. They are group expectations, which have
formal sanction by the state.
Sanctions are socially imposed rewards and punishments that
compel people to obey the norms.

14. Division of Norms
A.Folkways
B.Mores
C.Laws

15. 1.Norms
2.Ideas
3.Material Culture
4.Symbols

16. These are non material aspects of culture and embody man’s
conception of his physical, social and cultural world.
Example:
Idea of a model community, idea of an educated
person, idea of alternative marriage

17. It refers to the concrete and tangible objects produced
and used by man to satisfy his varied needs and wants.

18. It refers to an object, gesture, sound, color or design that
represents something “other that itself”.
Refers to anything that is used to stand for something
else

19. 1. Values
2. Technology
3. Beliefs
4. Artifacts
5. Arts
6. Traditions

20. 1. Values is anything held to be relatively worthy, important, desirable or valuable
2. Technology refers to the practical application of knowledge in converting raw
materials into finished products.
3. Beliefs these refer in particular to the religious conviction of individuals that
also shape their ways of living.
4. Art refers to the creative works of individuals which are known to be results
and affected by the skills, ideas, imagination and emotions
5. Artifacts are such valuable tools for exploring the past and using them to
understand the past.
6. Traditions refers to a way of thinking, behaving, or doing something that has
been used by people in a particular society for many generations.

22. A. Culture C. Politics
B. Government D. Society
1. It refers to a group of people sharing a
common culture within a define territorial
boundaries.

23. 2. It is anything that is used to stand for
something else.
A. Artifacts C. Norms
B. Language D. Symbols

24. 3. These are rules or expectations of behavior
and thoughts based on shared beliefs within a
specific cultural or social group.
A. Artifacts C. Norms
B. Language D. Values

25. 4. Which of the following is referred to as a
system of words and symbols used to
communicate with other people?
A. Artifacts C. Norms
B. Language D. Values

26. 5. It refers to valuable tools for exploring the past
and using them to understand the past.
A. Artifacts C. Technology
B. Language D. Values

27. 6. Which is referred to as the patterns of
repetitive behavior which becomes habitual and
conventional part of living?
A. Folkways C. Mores
B. Laws D. Values

28. 7. These refer in particular to the religious
conviction of individuals that also shape their
ways of living.
A. Beliefs C. Norms
B. Folkways D. Traditions

29. 8. They represent the standards we use to
evaluate the desirability of things.
A. Folkways C. Mores
B. Laws D. Values

30. . It refers to the practical application of
knowledge in converting raw materials into
finished products.
A. Artifacts C. Technology
B. Language D. Values