Scribd
Upload
24 views19 pages

The Elements of Culture

This document discusses key elements of culture including norms, values, cultural change, and cultural artifacts. It provides examples of each: Norms are unwritten rules that guide behavior and can be formal or informal. Norms change over time within a culture, for example regarding hairstyles, clothing, abortion and birth control. Values are beliefs that guide decision making and vary between individuals and cultures. Examples of Filipino values are discussed. Cultural change refers to alterations in a culture's traits and structure over time. Norms and beliefs within cultures are not static and change. Cultural artifacts are any objects that provide information about a culture, including tools, art, remains of living things, and

Uploaded by

Marjorie Ragunton
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
24 views19 pages

The Elements of Culture

This document discusses key elements of culture including norms, values, cultural change, and cultural artifacts. It provides examples of each: Norms are unwritten rules that guide behavior and can be formal or informal. Norms change over time within a culture, for example regarding hairstyles, clothing, abortion and birth control. Values are beliefs that guide decision making and vary between individuals and cultures. Examples of Filipino values are discussed. Cultural change refers to alterations in a culture's traits and structure over time. Norms and beliefs within cultures are not static and change. Cultural artifacts are any objects that provide information about a culture, including tools, art, remains of living things, and

Uploaded by

Marjorie Ragunton
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 19

The Elements of

Culture
Ms. Marjorie P. Ragunton
MED-Social Studies
Norms
Are the unwritten rules
that guide behavior
within a society
Formal norms inFormal
norms
Cultural Change
Refers to all alterations affecting new
traits or trait complexes and changes in a
cultures content and structure.
Changing
Norms and
Beliefs
Different cultures have different norms, even if they share other
types of practices and beliefs. It is also true that norms change over
time within a given culture.
• Hairstyles
• Clothing/Fashion
• Color
• When the Beatles first
became popular in the early
1960s, their hair barely
covered their ears, but
parents of teenagers back
then were aghast at how they
looked.
• If anything, clothing styles change
even more often than hairstyles.
Hemlines go up, hemlines go down.
Lapels become wider, lapels become
narrower. This color is in, that color is
out. Hold on to your out-of-style
clothes long enough, and eventually
they may well end up back in style.
• A more important topic on which norms have changed is abortion
and birth control. Despite the controversy surrounding abortion
today, it was very common in the ancient world. Much later,
medieval theologians generally felt that abortion was not murder if
it occurred within the first several weeks after conception. This
distinction was eliminated in 1869, when Pope Pius IX declared
abortion at any time to be murder. In the United States, abortion was
not illegal until 1828, when New York state banned it to protect
women from unskilled abortionists, and most other states followed
suit by the end of the century.
• Contraception was also practiced in ancient times, only to be
opposed by early Christianity. Over the centuries, scientific
discoveries of the nature of the reproductive process led to more
effective means of contraception and to greater calls for its use,
despite legal bans on the distribution of information about
contraception. In the early 1900s, Margaret Sanger, an American
nurse, spearheaded the growing birth-control movement and helped
open a birth-control clinic in Brooklyn in 1916.

• Republic Act No. 10354 - Responsible Parenthood and


Reproductive Health, commonly known as Reproductive Health
Bill.
Values
Are beliefs or principles that guide an
individual's behavior and decision-
making. They can be shaped by personal
experiences, culture, religion, or other
factors, and can vary greatly from person
to person.
Examples of values include honesty,
integrity, respect, compassion, and
responsibility.
• Awa (Compassion for Others)
• Bahala Na (Let Go & Let God)
• Bayanihan (We Are Heroes to Each Other)
• Mabuting Pakikitungo (Hospitality)
• Delicadeza (We Value Our Reputation)
• Makapamilya (Family First and Last)
• Katapatan (Sincerity and Loyalty)
• Magalang (Respectful)
• Malikhain (Creativity)
• Utang na Loob (Sense of Gratitude and Generosity)
Cultural Artifacts
A term used in the social
sciences, particularly anthropology,
ethnology, and
sociology for anything created by
humans which gives
information about the culture of its
creator and users.
• Artifacts - These refer to any objects made by people during a
particular time and place for a specific use. These could refer to
tools, clothing, jewelry, or pottery.
• Ecofacts or Biofacts - These are the natural remains of living
creatures that have been preserved. Examples of ecofacts are bones,
seeds, shells, plant remains like wood and charcoal, and others.
• Features - This is the collective term for all archeological materials
that cannot be removed from their original site at the risk of
changing their original form. Features are modified by human
activity and can refer to structures, imprints on the ground, burial
sites, pits, and others.
• The “Yawning” Jarlet of
Leta-Leta Cave

• The Flying Elephant of


Lena Shoal

• The Manunggul Jar

• Bolinao Skull

• The Limestone Tombs of


Mt. Kamhantik
cultural relativism

The view that ethical and social standards


reflect the cultural context from which they
are derived.
The goal of this is to promote understanding
of cultural practices that are not typically part
of one's own culture.

Cultural Relativism is important to


anthropology and one of the things that makes
anthropology unique because it is a tool, a
method for attempting to see things from a
multiplicity of viewpoints so as to better
understand them.
Thank
You!

You might also like