Moral Agent: Culture and Moral Behavior Culture PDF

MORAL AGENT: CULTURE AND MORAL BEHAVIOR CULTURE PRESENTORS: PALMA, WENDY ROSE TINAGAN, SOPHIA RAIN a complex phenomenon contains nearly all aspects of shared human experience they want to belong and be accepted by peers. they need protection from danger being part of a group provides human...

MORAL AGENT: CULTURE AND MORAL BEHAVIOR CULTURE PRESENTORS: PALMA, WENDY ROSE TINAGAN, SOPHIA RAIN a complex phenomenon contains nearly all aspects of shared human experience they want to belong and be accepted by peers. they need protection from danger being part of a group provides human being's chances to survive. Plato worried about the idols and ideologies of his day, especially about the power of the public to corrupt a young person's mind. According to Karl Marx, Culture served to justify inequality because the ruling class determines what is right and wrong while the rest merely follow. SYMBOLS - anything that a group of people find meaningful. The Tori Gate Panda Crane LANGUAGE - enable human beings to communicate either verbally or through writing. BELIEFS - assumptions of convictions held to be true by an individual or a group of people. VALUES - culturally acceptable standards of behavior. It is what a person considers important or beneficial in life. NORM - informal guideline by a particular group of people or social unit about what is considered normal or correct/incorrect social behavior. 1. Native traits (genetic characteristics) 2. Early childhood experience 3. One's cultural surroundings HOW DOES CULTURE DEFINE MORAL BEHAVIOR? Plato implied that if a person's cultural surroundings reward conformity or agreeable norms, it would lead the person to behave much better and quell undesirable conduct. The power of culture is more potent in children because they don't have any pre-existing values. A child's cultural surrounding should express the image of a noble character that role models should display the conduct of a proper human being. CULTURE'S ROLE IN MORAL BEHAVIOR People learn morals and aspects of right and wrong from transmitters of culture: respective parents, teachers, novels, films, and televisions. Observing or watching them, people develop a set of idea of what is right or wrong and what is acceptable and what is not.  Attitude  Standards of morality  Rules of etiquettes  Perceptions of reality  Language  Notions about the proper way to live  Beliefs about how females and males should interact -refers to training people to think and act in a certain way by using positive and negative reinforcement by society. It starts at birth, and there are several factors that promote social conditioning. THANK YOU!