Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University

COLLEGE OF GRADUATE STUDIES

Agoo, La Union

Foundation of Education 2 (Socio-Anthro Psycho)

1st Semester SY 2017-2018

“Subfields of Anthropology: Cultural”

Discussant: Charles A. Gawidan Professor: Prof. Paulo Jan F. Samson

MA Science Education

I. TOPIC PROPER
Culture is the totality of socially acquired life ways of a group of people. It
consists of the patterned repetitive ways of thinking, feeling and acting that
are characteristics of members of a particular society or segment of the
society (Marvin Harris)

Culture is all that human beings learn to do, to use, to produce, and to
believe as they grow to maturity and live out their lives in the social group to
which they belong.

Culture is an all-encompassing concept which includes all the recipes for

living, a blueprint for behaviour and social activity, the sum total of human
creations, and a way of life which serves as potential guide.

Characteristics of Culture
 Culture is learned
 Culture is transmitted orally and by writing
 Culture is shared
 Culture is patterned and integrated
 Culture is adaptive
 Culture is compulsory
 Culture interact and change

Cultural Anthropology is the study of contemporary people and their cultures

- culture refers to people's learned and shared behaviors and beliefs
- considers variations and similarities across cultures, and how cultures change over
time
- can learn about culture by spending a long time, typically a year or more, living
with the people they study ---> cultural anthropologists

Cultural Anthropology focuses on the origin and history of human societies

and culture in societies that can be studied directly.

Cultural Anthropology explains cultural differences and similarities based on

gathered data, looking at how changes occur in various aspects of culture.

II. ISSUES WITH THE TOPIC

Culture and Education:
> Curriculum Integration of Indigenous Peoples Education.
 - Indigenous knowledge may be integrated into education and thereby,
bring the benefits of helping to ‘sustain’ indigenous knowledge and
societies to all
> Learning and knowledge rests in diversity of opinions.

“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture
is like a tree without roots. ~Marcus Garvey”

III. REFERENCES

https://quizlet.com/17514513/anthropology-and-the-study-of-culture-
ch1-flash-cards/

https://quizlet.com/4826776/sociology-test-chapter-3-flash-cards/

http://www.answers.com/Q/Characteristics_of_culture?#slide=8

http://www.unesco.org/education/tlsf/mods/theme_c/mod11.html