UCSP

Introduction to UCSP
1st QUARTER | S.Y. 2022-2023 TRANSCRIBED BY: Kiona Charlize D. Caiga
LECTURER: Ms. Rubelle Macaraeg
CULTURAL VARIATION AND SOCIAL DIFFERENCES 7. NATIONALITY
1. GENDER - Legal relationship that binds a person and a
- Refers to social, cultural, and psychological country
characteristics or traits related to males and - It allows the state to protect and have jurisdiction
over a person
females based on social contexts
a. Gender Typing a. Jus Sanguinis (Right of Blood)
- Process by which children acquire the values, - Nationality is acquired by the nationality of their
motives, and behaviors viewed appropriate for natural parents
males and females b. Jus Soli (Right of Soil)
- Nationality is determined by the place of birth
2. SEX
- Centers on biological differences UCSP
b. Gender Roles 1. CULTURE
- Level of masculinity and femininity varies from one - Sum of individuals way of life from material to
culture to another. non-material things
- Society dictates one’s productive and reproductive - Encompasses beliefs, practices, values, attitudes,
roles laws, norms, artifacts, symbols, knowledge, and
everything that a person has learned and shares as
a human person as a member of the society
3. RELIGION
- An organized system of ideas about spiritual
sphere or the supernatural 2. SOCIETY
- i.e. Catholics, Protestants, Islam, and INC - An organized group of independent people who
share common territory, language, and culture
4. SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS
3. POLITICS
- Category of people who have more or less the
- A theory, arts, and practice of government
same socioeconomic privileges in a society
- i.e. Upper class, middle class, and the lower class
NATURE AND SCOPE OF ANTHROPOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY,
5. ETHNICITY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE
- Expression of the set of cultural ideas held by a
distinct ethnic or indigenous group 1. ANTHROPOLOGY
a. Ethnic Group - Scientific study of man or human beings
- Latin words ANTHROPOS (man) and LOGOS (study)
- People who collectively and publicly identify
themselves as distinct and unique
- ETHNOLINGUISTIC GROUPS: 2. SOCIOLOGY
Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano, Bisaya, Ilonggo, Bicol, - Study of human social relationships and
Waray, Kapampangan … institutions
- Latin words SOCIUS (companion) and LOGOS
6. EXCEPTIONALITY
- State of being intellectually gifted or having 3. POLITICAL SCIENCE
physically or mentally challenged conditions - A social science that deals with humans and their
concerning personal behavior, communication, interactions
intellect, metal development, physical appearance, - Latin words POLIS (city/state) and SCIRE (to know)
or a combination of more than one.
a. RA 7277
- An act providing rehabilitation, self-development,
and self-reliance of disables people and their
integration
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Concept of Anthropology and Culture
1st QUARTER | S.Y. 2022-2023 TRANSCRIBED BY: Kiona Charlize D. Caiga
LECTURER: Ms. Rubelle Macaraeg

1. CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY SUBCULTURES

- “Knowledge about cultivated humans” - Dominant culture consists of several subcultures
- Can be based on race, ethnicity, geographic region,
FORMS OF CULTURE or economic class
1. Material Culture
- Formed by the physical objects that people create 1. Race
- i.e. cards, clothing, and books - A genetic or biological similarity among people
- also referred to as artifacts
2. Ethnicity
2. Non-Material culture - A wide variety of groups of people who share a
- Abstract human creations that we can’t touch language, territory, history, and religion
- i.e. language, family patterns, work practices, and
political and economic systems 3. Geographical region
- Geographic differences within countries or
THE HULTURAL ICEBERG similarities between countries
1. Visible Components (at the tip of the iceberg)
- Dress, habits, appearance, language, tradition, and 4. Economic and social class
behaviors - Differences in the socio-economic standing of
people
2. Hidden Components
- Assumptions, personality styles, expectations, CULTURAL DIFFERENCES
though processes, time orientation, values, 1. Communication
rules/roles, and space orientation Verbal
- Language
CHARACTERISTICS OF CULTURE a. Phonology
Functional its purpose is to provide b. Semantic
guidelines for behavior of c. Syntactics
a group of people d. Pragmatics
Social phenomenon Culture results from - Paralanguage
human interaction and is a. Intonation
unique to human society b. Laughing
Prescriptive Culture prescribes rules of c. Crying
social behavior d. Questioning
Learned Culture is learned from Non-verbal
other members of society - Body movements
Arbitrary Certain behaviors are - Space and touch
acceptable in one culture - Sense of time
and not acceptable to - Clothing, building, furnishing, jewelry, cosmetics
another
Value laden Culture provides values 2. Social categories
and tells people what is - Role, status, class, hierarchy
right and wrong
Facilitates communication Culture facilitates verbal 3. Social behavior
and nonverbal - Describing reasons and opinions
communication - Expressing dissatisfaction and criticism
Adaptive/dynamic Culture is constantly - Joking, asking personal questions
changing
Long term Accumulated by human 4. Service
beings in the course of - Culture differences on the interaction process
time between a service provider and visitor
Satisfy needs Culture helps to satisfy the
needs of the members of a
society
 CULTURAL DIMENSIONS
There are many dimensions of which cultures
differ
According to Hall, these include:
1. Human nature: agreements
2. Activity orientation
3. Human Relationships
4. Relation to time

According to Hofstede, these include:

1. Power Distance (PD)
- Interpersonal relationship develop in hierarchical
society
2. Uncertainty Avoidance (UA)
- The degree to which people feel threatened by
ambiguous situations
3. Individualism-Collectivism (IC)
- The degree to which individual goals and needs
take primary over group goals and needs
4. Masculinity-Femininity (MF)
- The degree to which people value work and
achievement VS. quality of life and harmonious
human relations

INTERCULTURAL INTERACTION MODEL

- Differing shapes of the individual represent the
influence of different cultures on an individual