Culture

- A way of life
- Includes the knowledge and skills of the people to address the challenges of their
environment
- It is related to the underlying connectivity among people in the community, identity
- It includes the community’s institutional arrangements, art and knowledge, values
practices and organization, systems of ideas, work and recreation
- Culture may start from:
o Environment
 Purpose of culture
 The need to adapt due to:
o Survival
o Develop meaning

MORALITY IN CULTURE

Norms

- Practices that we did through time as we adapt in the environment

- The ways on how members of a group or community are expected to behave and
conduct their daily acitivities
- May be passed down from generations to generations
- Serves as standards where we based our expectations
o Sets boundaries – may come from personal experience

Values

- These are the things regarded necessary and indispensable to lead a productive,
peaceful, happy and progressive personal and community life.
- Formula for happiness

Filipino Sense of Morality

- Quality of relationship with your network defines you

Shame and Fear

- Fear makes you conform to the norm

- Regulates behavior

Intrinsic

- Formation of smooth interpersonal relationship

- Avoid hurting the feeling of others
o Euphemism: sugarcoating
- Connected with the concept of loob
Regionalism

- Certain region only?