Culture & Society
This term refers to the complex whole encompassing beliefs, practices, values, laws, norms, artifacts, and knowledge acquired by a person as a member of society.
What is Culture?
This cause of social change is defined as a new combination or new use of existing knowledge, such as the creation of the mobile phone.
What is Invention?
This refers to the theory, art, and practice of government.
What is Politics?
These serve as guides or models of behavior in society, telling us what is proper or improper.
What are Norms?
This term refers to the category of persons who have more or less the same economic privileges in a society.
What is Socioeconomic Status (or Social Class)?
This term is defined as an organized group of interdependent people who share a common territory, language, and culture, acting together for collective survival.
This process refers to the spread of culture traits from one group to another through trade, migration, or mass communication.
What is Diffusion?
This branch of the Philippine government is tasked to interpret laws in accordance with society's standards and norms.
What is the Judiciary (or Judicial branch)?
This term refers to the state of having internalized norms as part of social expectation, where an individual follows them automatically.
What is Conformity?
In the Philippines, this social class is the largest in number and is often characterized by a subsistence lifestyle.
What is the Lower Class?
This term refers to the socially-constructed characteristics of being male or female, serving as a guide on how they think and act.
What is Gender?
This is the process by which one culture spreads to another through learning, with education being a popular form.
What is Enculturation?
This branch of the Philippine government has the power to make and pass laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
This type of deviance involves violations of social norms that are not codified into law, such as burping loudly or spitting on the street.
What is Informal Deviance?
This group includes small business owners, professionals, and overseas Filipino workers who earn enough to provide a comfortable living.
What is the Middle Class?
This specific term refers to the legal relationship that binds a person and a country, allowing the state to protect and have jurisdiction over them.
What is Nationality?
This term refers to the total assimilation of culture, manifested by a change in worldviews, attitudes, and behavior.
What is Integration?
This term describes the "self-perpetuating elite" in the Philippines where political power is limited to specific families, often an offshoot of the colonial experience.
What are Political Dynasties?
This term refers to acts or behaviors that are forbidden or discouraged by social custom, such as eating pork for Muslims or beef for Hindus.
What are Taboos?
This segment of the elite class consists of those who have humble beginnings and acquired wealth through hard work and industry (rags-to-riches).
Who are the Nouveau Riche (or New Rich)?
According to the text, culture is considered "super organic" because it is handed down from generation to generation through this process.
What is Inheritance (or Transmission)?
This specific mechanism of cultural spread involves establishing a connection with another culture, bridging areas of convergence.
What is Association?
According to the text, this right, granted to the President, allows them to reject decisions made by the legislative body.
What is Veto power?
This is a set of means ensuring people behave in expected ways, supported by sanctions like rewards and punishments.
What is Social Control?
The "traditional upper class" is made up of descendants of elite families who acquired wealth primarily through this method.
What is Inheritance (or Birthright)?