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    GEC L4 Notes

    THE MORAL AGENT and his CULTURE

    Culture

    • arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively


    • constantly modified by new discoveries &inventions
    • people learn to communicate with each other & think/ behave in certain ways approved by the
    group.
    is the social behavior & norms found in human societies. Culture is considered a central concept in
    anthropology, encompassing the range of phenomena that are transmitted through social learning in
    human societies.

    Education
    charged with teaching what society needs in building a nation in terms of moral & ethical standards of
    the group
     tasked to make an impact on the ethics, morality & values of the youth.

    Culture and Its Role in Moral Behavior

    Culture sum total of material &non- material products of social interaction.


    • include the totality of ways built up by a group of human beings
    • transmitted from one generation to another.
    • consists of the totality of skills, beliefs & knowledge

    5 CHARACTERISTICS OF CULTURE ( BY TULLO)

    1. It is learned
    - Man’s culture is acquired & developed through experience
    - not transmitted by genes but by family through education (formally or informally)
    - ex. Celebrating fiestas, sinulog
    2. It varies across nation

    ways of the people are the results of their relationships with their environment

    Ex. Respect for women or elders

    3. It is a group product
    – an adaptation of the whole social group to its environment where humans belong
    - Man is a part of the environment he created
    4. It can be transmitted
    by the following factors:
    - Family - Church
    - Media - workplace
     transmission of culture can be through the these mode:
    - Suggestion
    - formal communication
    - mass communication
    - by systems of reward & punishment
    -
    5. It is adaptive

    - – as man strives for fulfillment & satisfaction


    - he fights to adapt to his environment

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