1. Which is NOT a correct definition of culture? Culture refers to knowledge, experience, beliefs, values and attitudes acquired by a group of people in the
course of generations.
b. Culture is the system
of knowledge shared by a relatively large group of people.
c. Culture is fixed or static because it does not change over time.
d. Culture has been called "the way of life for an entire society."
2. Why it is important to know one's culture, history and environment?
It helps us to understand the people and the world better.
b. It helps us find a better job in the future.
It helps us venture to any business opportunities.
d. It helps us make our life better.
3. What is
defined by this statement “It refers to the immediate physical and social setting in which people live or in
which something happens or develops."
a. History
c. Environment
b. Culture
d. Values
4. What can influence your thinking or perception about understanding the world when reading a text or selection?
When a selection has a happy ending.
b. When the subject of the selection reflects the life of people in reality.
C. When a selection gives you information about
culture, history, environment and other factors that will expose
you to different experiences.
d. When a selection talks about how to improve your life better.
5. Which is the correct definition of history?
It is an investigation and presentation of our lives and our existence in connection to the past experiences.
b. It includes codes of manners, dress, language, religion, rituals, norms of behavior such as law and morality
and systems of belief.
c. It is place where
different things constantly interact with and adapt themselves.
d. It is called "the way of life for an entire society."
- Culture Definitions and Traits
- “A learned meaning system that consists of patterns of traditions, beliefs, values, norms, meanings and symbols that are passed on from one generation to the next and are shared to varying degrees by interacting members of a community. (Ting-Toomey and Chung)
- “A deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, actions, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and artifacts acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving” (Samovar and Porter)
- “An integrated systems of learned behavior patterns that are characteristic of the members of any given society” (Oosterwal)
- “A learned set of shared perceptions about beliefs, values, norms which affect the behaviors of a relatively large group of people” (Lustig and Koester)
- What gives people “a sense of who they are, of belonging, of how they should behave, and of what they should be doing." (Moran, Harris and Moran)
Definitions:
- Learned
- Transmitted
- Based on Symbols
- Changeable
- innovation (discovery) e.g. television, computer, women’s movement
- diffusion (borrowing) e.g. McDonalds worldwide
- acculturation (long-term contact with another culture) e.g. Taco Bell?
- Integrated
- Ethnocentric
- Adaptive
Traits: Seven (7) Major Traits of Culture
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Learned through interaction, observation, and imitation
Conscious — being told, reading
Unconscious — most culture is learned unconsciously — i.e. through language for example
Learned from a variety of sources
- Proverbs
Folk tales and folklore
High Culture: poetry, art, music
Mass media (especially TV in this generation)
- Changes occurs from: