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Culture: How It Defines

Moral Behavior
Learning outcomes:
1.Articulate what culture, enculturation, inculturation and acculturation
meaning.
2.Attribute facets of personal behavior to culture.
3.Explain how culture shapes the moral agent.
What is Culture?
1. “Integrated pattern of human knowledge, beliefs, and behaviors.”
- Taylor as quoted by Palispis, 1997
2."the set of means used by mankind to become more virtuous and
reasonable in order to become fully human
-Magisterium of the Church
3. Culture is passed on to the next generation by learning not through the
genes or heredity. "Culture" includes all human phenomena which are not
purely results of human genetics.
-Kroeber et al, 1952
4. Sociologists categorize culture into material and non-material culture.
The Human Person and Culture
“As a moral agent you are born into a culture, a factual reality you have
not chosen.”

How does culture shape the way individuals perceive ideas?

Culture B
Culture A the concept of
views perfection as perfection is that it's
something that is well-crafted and
absolutely complete functional, but they
and flawless. believe it can be changed
or improved.
How do people acquire a culture?
1).Enculturati on
• was coined by J.M. Herskovits Margaret
Mead.
• a process of learning from infancy till
death, the components of life in one's
culture
Enculturation
• African girls grow up learning that
as a woman she has less rights and
privileges as the African man.

• Levirate marriage
How do people acquire a culture?
2).Inculturati on
• is a two way process: it roots the Gospel in
a culture and introduces that transformed
culture to Christianity.
Inculturation
• The Sinulog Festival is a vibrant and
colorful celebration held in Cebu
City to honor the Santo Niño (Child
Jesus)
How do people acquire a culture?
3).Acculturati on
• "cultural modification of an individual,
group, or people by adapting to or
borrowing traits from another culture."
Acculturation
• A Filipino who originally lived in the
Philippines decided to stay for good
in America
1. How Culture Shapes the Moral Agent?
2. Should respect be given to all
cultures?
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