CULTURE AND

FILIPINO VALUES
Ryan Glenn Rubio
Sharmaine
Sanchez
Carlo Serrano
Margielyn Tobio
Stephen Vedrio

CULTURE
Is the social heritage of a
society. It refers to the
customary ways in which
groups organize their ways of
behaving,
thinking
and
feeling
and
which
they
transmit one generation to
others.

CHARACTERISTICS OF CULTURE
1.Culture is learned
2.Culture is shared
3.Culture is dynamic
4.Culture is diverse
5.Culture is cumulative

COMPONENTS OF CULTURE
NORMS

These are the guidelines people

are supposed follow in their relation
with one another, they are shared
rules that specify what is right or
wrong and the appropriate and
e are supposed
to be sad
and depressed when a family mem
inappropriate
behavior.

KINDS OF NORMS
A. FOLKWAYS
These are everyday habits, custom
traditions, and conventions people obey
without giving much thought to the
matter.
Ex: Barrios folks eat with their bare
hands and walk along the streets
barefooted. On the other hand, city folks
eat using spoon and fork wand walk
wearing slippers or shoes.

B. MORES
These are the norms
consider vital to their well
being and most cherished
values they are special
customs with moral and
ethnical significance, which
are
strongly
held
and
emphasized.

TWO KINDS OF MORES

itive Mores or Duty or the Though shall Behavior

Duty refers to the behavior, which must
and ought to be done because they are
ethically and morally good.
Ex: Giving assistance to the poor and the
needy, Thou shall love of God above all.

gative Mores or Taboo or the Thou shall not behavio

Taboo refers to societal prohibitions on
certain acts which must not be done
because they are not illegal, but unethical
and immoral.

C. LAWS

These are formalized norms enacted

by people vested with legitimate
authority.
e revised Penal Code of the Philippines, Republic Act, Batas P

1.Ideas, Beliefs, Values

2.Material Culture
3.Symbols

DIFFERENT VIEWPOINTS
1. CULTURAL RELATIVISM
States that cultures differ, so that a
cultural trait, act or idea has no meaning or
functions by itself but has a meaning only
within its cultural setting.

2. CULTURE SHOCK

Refers to the feeling of disbelief,

disorganization,
and
frustrations
once
experiences when he encounter cultural
patterns or practices which are different from
3. ETHNOCENTRISM
his.
Refers to the tendency to see the
behaviors, beliefs, values and norms of
ones own group as the only right way of

4. XENOCENTRISM
Refers to the idea that what is foreign is
best and that ones lifestyle, products or
ideas are inferior to those of others.

5. SUBCULTURE
Refers to smaller groups which develop
norms,
values,
beliefs,
and
special
languages which make them distinct from
broader society.

6. CONTRA CULTURE

Refers to the subgroups whose

standards come in conflict with and oppose
the conventional standards of the dominant
culture

 VALUES
Etymologically, value comes
from the Latin word valere,
which means to be strong, to be
worth.
Are those standards by which
a group of society judges the
desirability and importance of
persons,
ideas,
actions,
or
objects.

MPORTANCE OF VALUES

1. Values provide the framework within which

judgments are made. Values are guide for
behavior.
Values give purpose and direction to the lives of people.
3. Values give meaning and significance to
life and to the totality of society.

alues make things desirable, satisfying and worthy of approv

5. Values define what are important to
people, what are worth living for and if
need be,
are between
worth dying
for.
Values provide
forwhat
the gap
knowledge
and action.
7. Values have a primordial place in
education, in the total formation of the
person.

THEORIES ON ORIGIN OF VALUES

The Inner Man or Mentalistic Theory of Values

-All our obligations, all of what we call good

and what we call bad, do not exist as good
and bad per se. They are OUR
constructions and are for each of us but a
product of each individuals wants, needs,
and desires. The value one places on a
given thing.. The goodness and badness of
The Outer Man or Behavioral Theory of Values
it is purely the product of each heart and
-mind.
Values come from your personal experience.
You get punished or rewarded for things you
did, and that reinforcement is what
determines what youll deem good and bad.

Labeling Theory or Cultural Relativism Theory of Values

-According

to this theory, things, ideas, events,

behavior are neither good nor bad per se. It is
the society which labels them as either good or
bad. If the society comes to an agreement that
something is good, then it becomes good; when
d; Ego,
the and
society
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label
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bad then
of Values
it becomes
and Preferences
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-Freud

posits that we have evolutionary-based

instinctual drives Id based drives --- to prefer
certain things; we develop over time a
consciousness of ways to interact with our
external world to get what we want. Ego
based drives --- and we have a set of culturally
and parentally induced should and should not.
Super Ego based drives --- that spend a good
amount of time in a tension producing