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Understanding

Culture, Society
& Politics
FIRST SEMESTER- 1ST QUARTER
Human Culture Variation

1 differences in social behaviors that different


cultures exhibit around the world

Social Differences

2 differences among the individuals on the


basis of social characteristicsand qualities
CULTURAL VARIATION
Religion,Ethnicity & Nationality
1.RELIGION
• ‘religare’ a Latin word – ‘to bind together’
• a system of beliefs and practices as well as systems of
actions directed toward entities which are above men
is an organized system of ideas about the spiritual
sphere or the supernatural.
CULTURAL VARIATION
Religion,Ethnicity & Nationality
2.ETHNICITY
• the expression of the set of cultural
ideas held by a distinct ethics or
indigenous group
CULTURAL VARIATION

3.NATIONALITY
• the legal relationship that binds a
person and a country.
• It allows the state to protect and have
jurisdiction over a person
SOCIAL DIFFERENCES

1.GENDER
• socially-constructed characteristics of
being male of female
• serve as guide on how males and
females think and act about themselves
SOCIAL DIFFERENCES

GENDER
• socially-constructed characteristics of
being male of female
• serve as guide on how males and
females think and act about themselves
SOCIAL DIFFERENCES

LGBTQI
• LESBIAN - woman who is emotionally,
romantically, or sexually attracted to
other women
SOCIAL DIFFERENCES

LGBTQI
• GAY - men attracted emotionally,
romantically, and/or sexually to men
SOCIAL DIFFERENCES

LGBTQI
• GAY - men attracted emotionally,
romantically, and/or sexually to men
• BISEXUAL- person who is attracted to
two sexes or two genders, but not
necessarily simultaneously or equally.
SOCIAL DIFFERENCES

LGBTQI
• TRANSGENDER - people are those whose
psychological self ("gender identity")
differs from the social expectations for
the physical sex they were born with
SOCIAL DIFFERENCES

LGBTQI
• QUEERTI QUESTIONING
- person who is attracted to multiple genders
• INTERSEX - set of medical conditions that
feature congenital anomaly of the
reproductive and sexual system
SOCIAL DIFFERENCES

2. EXCEPTIONALITY
• refers to the state of being intellectually
gifted and/or having physically or
mentally challenged conditions
SOCIAL DIFFERENCES

EXCEPTIONALITY
• personality behavior, communication,
intellect, physical appearance,
combination of more than one specific
exceptionality/disability
SOCIAL DIFFERENCES

3.SOCIO ECONOMIC STATUS


• the category of persons who have more
or less the same socio-economic
priveleges
• •Upper class •Middle class •Lower class
CULTURAL VARIATION BETWEEN
CULTURES
• human cultures modify the natural
environment and it initially shaped, and
still shapes to some extent, the culture
of society
CULTURAL VARIATION BETWEEN
CULTURES
VARIATION WITHIN CULTURES
• SUBCULTURES - segment of society
which shares a distinctive pattern of
mores, folkways, and values which differ
from the pattern of larger society
CULTURAL VARIATION BETWEEN
CULTURES
VARIATION WITHIN CULTURES
• COUNTER CULTURE - group whose values
and norms place it at odds with
mainstream society or a group that
actively rejects dominant cultural values
and norms.
CULTURAL VARIATION BETWEEN
CULTURES
VARIATION WITHIN CULTURES
• MILITIA - a military force that engages in
rebel or terrorist activities, typically in
opposition to a regular army
CULTURAL VARIATION BETWEEN
CULTURES
VARIATION WITHIN CULTURES
• HIGH & POPULAR CULTURE
⚬ "High culture" set of cultural products,
mainly in the arts, held in the highest

esteem by a culture
CULTURAL VARIATION BETWEEN
CULTURES
VARIATION WITHIN CULTURES
• HIGH & POPULAR CULTURE
⚬ “POPULAR CULTURE” culture based on
the tastes of ordinary people rather
than an educated elite

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