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The document outlines key concepts related to culture, including enculturation, acculturation, and the elements and characteristics of culture such as language, norms, and values. It also discusses forms of change, including cultural, technological, and social change, as well as concepts in sociology like socialization, social stratification, and social mobility. Additionally, it defines social inequality and status within a societal context.

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The document outlines key concepts related to culture, including enculturation, acculturation, and the elements and characteristics of culture such as language, norms, and values. It also discusses forms of change, including cultural, technological, and social change, as well as concepts in sociology like socialization, social stratification, and social mobility. Additionally, it defines social inequality and status within a societal context.

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ENCULTURATION
- process of handling down of culture from one generation to the succeeding one
ACCULTURATION
- process of passing culture from one who knows to somebody who does not know.
CULTURE
- the shared products of human learning

(Elements of Culture)
1. LANGUAGE
- an abstract system of words, meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture
2. NORMS
- standard of behaviors maintained by a society
3. SANCTIONS
- penalties or rewards for conducting concerning social norms
4. VALUES
- used to evaluate the behavior of others

(Characteristics of Culture)
1. Transferable
2. Shared
3. Adaptive
4. Continuous
5. Learned
6. Universal
7. Dynamic
8. Symbolic
9. Borrowed
CHANGE - adjustment of persons or group to achieve relative harmony
(Forms of Change)
1. Cultural Change - refers to all alteration affection new trait or trait complexes to
change
2. Technological Change - revision that occurs in man's application of his technical
knowledge and skills as he adopts himself to environment
3. Social Change - refers to the variation or modification in the patterns of social
organizations, of such groups within a society or the entire society
SOCIOLOGY
- study of patterns of human behavior
SOCIETY
- group of organized individuals
GROUPS
- unit of interacting personalities
SOCIALIZATION
- refers to the adapting or conforming to the common needs and interests of a social
group
SOCIAL PROCESS
- patterned and recurrent form of competition, conflict, cooperation, accommodation,
assimilation and acculturation
SOCIAL STRATIFICATION
-classification of people based on their socio-economic strata
SOCIAL STABILITY
-refers to movement of individuals/groups from one position of a society's
stratification to another

Types of Social Mobility


1. Horizontal - movement of a person from one social position to another of the same
rank
2. Vertical - movement of a person from one social to another of different rank
3. Intergenerational - involves changes in the social position of children relative to
their parents
4. Intragenerational - involves change in person's social position within her/his adult
life
SOCIAL INEQUALITY
- a condition in which members of the society have different amounts of wealth,
prestige and power
STATUS
- positioned assigned by a person in a group

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