HUMAN CULTURE

VARIATION/SOCIAL DIFFRENCES

Mr. Fernando L. Fariñas Jr

Senior High School (SHS) Teacher
 Human Culture Variation: A Definition

• It refers to the difference in social behaviors

that different cultures exhibit around the
world. What may be considered good
etiquette in one culture nay be considered bad
etiquette in another.
(globalsociology.pbworks.com)
 Social Difference: A Definition
• The differences among the individuals on the
basis of social characteristics and qualities.
(definition.blurtit.com)
 CULTURE VARIATION
• Religion
• Ethnicity
• Nationality
RELIGION
• ‘religare’ a Latin word – ‘to bind together’
• Is a system of beliefs and practices as well as
systems of actions directed toward entities
which are above men
• Is an organized system of ideas about the
spiritual sphere or the supernatural
RELIGION
 CULTURE VARIATION
• RELIGION
• ETHNICITY
• NATIONALITY
ETHNICITY
• It is the expression of the set of cultural ideas
held by a distinct of ethics or indigenous
people
 NATIONALITY
• It is the legal
relationships that
binds a person and
a country.
• It allows to protect
a have jurisdiction
over a person.
 SOCIAL DIFFRENCES
• Gender
• Socio-economic status
• Exceptionality
Gender
• It is socially-constructed characteristics of
being male or female.
• Serve us guide on how males and females
think and act about themselves.
• Gender vs Sex
• LGBTQi ( Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender
Queer/ Questioning, Intersex)
 Gender vs Sex
• One’s sense of self as • It refers to a person
masculine or based on their
feminine regardless anatomy
of external genitalia. • Bodies
• Socially constructed
characteristics
• Personality
characteristics
• It is biological
LGBTQi
•  lesbian - A women who is emotionally,
romantically, or sexually attracted to other
women
• Gay – Men attracted emotionally, romantically,
or sexually attracted to other men
• Bisexual – A person who is attracted to two
sexes pr two gender, but not necessarily
simultaneously or equally.
LGBTQi
• Transgender – Transgender (sometimes shortened to
trans or TG) people are those whose psychological
self ( “gender identity”) differs from the social
expectations for the physical sex they were born
with.
• Queer/Questioning - a person who is attracted to
multiple genders
• Intersex – Intersexuality is a set of medical conditions
that feature congenital anomaly of the reproductive
and sexual system.
SOCIAL DIFFERENCES
• Gender
• Socio-economic status
• Exceptionality
 Socio-economic status
• It refers to category of person who have more
or less who have less the same socio-
economic privileges
• Upper class
• Middle class
• Lower class
Socio-economic status
SOCIAL DIFFERENCES
• Gender
• Socio-economic status
• Exceptionality
Exceptionality

• It refers to the state of being intellectually

gifted and/or having physically or mentally
challenged conditions
Exceptionality
• Personality behaviors
• Communication (learning disability, speech,
impairment, and hearing problems)
• Intellect (mind intellectual & mental
development disabilities)
• Physical appearance (blind-low vision)
• Or combination of more than one specific
exceptionality/disability.
 Cultural Variation Between Cultures

• If human culture modify the natural

environment, it is also true the natural
environment initially shaped, and still shapes
to some extent, the culture of society.
•
 Variation Between Cultures
• The Japanese diet consist largely fish, seafood
and vegetables because Japan is an
archipelago and the sea provided consistent
source of food and, with one twentieth of the
surface of the United State, there is no room
for grazing land for raising beef cattle.
Similarly, climate, soil, and geography affect
cultural aspects.
VARIATION WITHIN CULTURE
Subculture
• A segment of society which shares a
distinctive pattern of mores, folkways, and
values which differ from the pattern of largely
society. It is culture within a culture.
• These groups that have specific cultural traits
that set them apart from the dominant
culture.
Example of Subculture
Counter Culture
• Is group whose values and norms place it at odds
with mainstream society or a group that actively
rejects dominant cultural values norms. In most
western countries, the 1960s saw the rise of
different counter culture groups and social
movements that sought to dismantle the different
inequalities that were then part of the dominant
culture, such as racism (civil rights movement),
sexism, (modern Feminist movement) and
homophobia ( Gay rights movements).
Counter Culture
• More recently paramilitary groups, militias and survivalist
groups constitute countercultures as they reject the social
changes that came out of the 1960s and became part of
mainstream.
• A paramilitary is a semi-militarized force whose
organizational structure, tactics, trainings, subculture, and
(often) function are similar to those of a professional
military, and which is not included as part of a state’s
formal armed forces
• Militia – a military forces that engages in rebel or terrorist
activities, typically in opposition to a regular army.
 Refeences
• https://www.slideshare.net/CarlPatrickTadeo1
/human-cultural-variation-social-differences