THE CONCEPT OF CULTURECulture can also refer to expressive culture, which includes plastic and graphic arts, such as sculpture and painting, and language when utilized as an artistic medium. Sociologists and anthropologists define culture in a broader context. Culture refers to the total and distinctive way of life or designs for living of any society. It encompasses learned behaviors, beliefs, attitudes, values, and ideals characteristic of certain societies. Weinstein defines culture as a human invention that has a fundamental role in the population’s adaption to its environment. Its essential features found in the people’s collective life include norms, values, language, tools and other material objects. Culture is the sum total of human creations- intellectual, technical, artistic, physical, and moral.
It guides social life, the things generation must follow and to which they may eventually add. Language, religion, science, art, notions of right and wrong, and explanations of the meaning of life are all parts of culture. Culture is a people’s social heritage;it refers to customary ways in which groups organize their ways of behaving, thinking, and feeling.
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The development of Sociology in the Philippines can be divided into three categories ...
(1) when in it regarded as a Social Philosophy, (2) when it is regarded as a welfare or problem oriented, and (3) when it is geared more towards scientific orientation Sociology is a science of society and the social interactions taking place within it. It is concerned with social interaction involving social acts, social relationships, social organizations, social structures and social processes. Sociology studies not only the structure and functions of social organization, but also the changes which take place within it. Objectives:
At the end of this session, the student is expected to
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