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Understanding Culture, Society and Politics
Understanding Culture, Society and Politics
CULTURE, SOCIETY
AND POLITICS
LESSON 4:
Culture is Dynamic
Culture is fluid rather than static, which means that
culture changes all the time, every day, in subtle and
tangible ways.
Culture continuously change as new ways of life
evolved by the changing conditions of the societal life.
1. Culture is DYNAMIC, FLEXIBLE, & ADAPTIVE
Culture is Dynamic
Example:
Filipino man before are very known to their style of courtship,
wherein man are obliging to do harana to show how deeply in
love he is to the lady she loved most. But as time passes by
this traditions vanishes and was change by “pang madalian
style”, wherein the mode of courting is made easy through the
used of modern technology (cellular phone)-wherein courting
only last for an hour.
1. Culture is DYNAMIC, FLEXIBLE, & ADAPTIVE
Culture is Flexible
Adapts effectively to the changing demands and
allows quicker, smoother reactions to out of the
ordinary events.
Example:
Technology usage has been a part of the evolving
modern culture in which people need the gadget to
survive in this era.
1. Culture is DYNAMIC, FLEXIBLE, & ADAPTIVE
Culture is Adaptive
A relatively new concept used to define the specific
capacity of human beings and human societies to
overcome changes of their natural and social
environment by modifications to their culture.
1. Culture is DYNAMIC, FLEXIBLE, & ADAPTIVE
Culture is Adaptive
Example:
From hunting and gathering to technology based
capital activities, people tend to adapt and learned the
improvement in the society. In order to survived and
never left behind by time people need to blend with
the changes around them.
2. Culture as SHARED & CONTESTED
Culture is shared by the social interaction may take in
many forms to transmit the beliefs, values and
expectation of the human society.
The exchange of social ideas may provide
understanding and learning the human culture and
tradition.
The culture works by social dynamism using
language, communication, technologies, and
commercial trades.
3. Culture is LEARNED THROUGH SOCIALIZATION
&ENCULTURATION
Socialization
The people acquire information about culture in many
ways. This is done by learning the language and other
form of educational information of the society.
Enculturation
Is the process by which people learn and adopt the
ways and manners of other culture (refers to culture)
Product of socialization process.
Considered the actualization of the learned culture
(referring to application)
3. Culture is LEARNED THROUGH SOCIALIZATION
&ENCULTURATION
Enculturation
Example: Listening to someone with an slang accent
and trying to learned and adopt how it is done and
make it as your practice.
note: enculturation is somewhat like “panggagaya
at pagtutulad” in Filipino.
3. Culture is LEARNED THROUGH SOCIALIZATION
&ENCULTURATION
Examples:
The economic activities are patterned by the
innovation and inventions of cultural groups that need
to be integrated by the social life of the member of the
society. The word “bili kayo mga suki” is a
registered (patterned) practice that can not be deleted
on any economic activities in some places in a plaza
or market.
4. Culture as PATTERNED SOCIAL INTERACTION
Examples:
Activities that we always do such as going to toilet,
washing the hands, cleaning the house, driving the
car, going to bedroom and etc. are considered
patterned activities. We tend to follow these certain
habits because these are patterned by specific culture
of a given society.
5. Culture is INTEGRATED AND AT TIMES UNSTABLE