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Geertz said CULTURE is a whole and a puzzle. A system where meaning was
shared by a population with a little variations within groups.
Way of life
Morals Beliefs
CULTURE
Customs Arts
Laws
Significance of Studying Culture, Society, and
Politics
Accdg. To Mark Banaag, Culture functions in the following ways:
CULTURE
AND
INTEGRATION
PATTERNS AND
HUMAN ACCEPTABLE
SATISFACTION BEHAVIORS
SIGNIFICANCE
OF CULTURE
CONVEYS
PRODUCTION
AND
OF MAN MADE
THINGS FACILITATES
MEANING
Society
Came from Latin SOCIETAS, SOCIUS described as bond or interaction
between friendly people
SIGNIFICANCE CHARACTERIZE
AVENUE FOR STUDYING SOCIETY THE TOTALITY
ECONOMIC OF A TERRITORY
INTERDEPENDENCE
SYMBOL OF POLITICAL
INDEPENDENCE
Politics
POLITICS US AND
COMPROMISE
SOCIETY
ACADEMICS
POLITICS
Is judging another culture solely by the values and standards of one’s own
culture.
Is a perception that arises from the fact that cultures differ and each culture
defines reality different.
Cultural Relativism
This is the doctrine that societies or cultures are qualitative different and
have their own unique logic and cannot be rank on a scale.
The Problem of Ethnocentrism