CULTURE

-a concept that is very essential if you want to understand the

nature of INTER-RELATIONSHIPS as well as HUMAN GROUPS.
OTHER TERMS:
-Personality SocietyThey are interrelated but not synonymous.
WHAT IS PERSONALITY?
It is the product of the inter-play between persons innate
biological equipment and his experiences in his environment &
culture.
SOCIETY
The totality of social organization and a complex network of
social relationships.
-It symbolizes a group of having a COMMON LIFE.
-Part of that common life is CULTURE.
-Society rests on 2 or more persons in having a meaningful
relationships.
-It exists in and it continues to exists through SOCIAL
INTERACTIONS as Human beings interact with one another they
exchange of meanings and experiences of environments.
-These exchanges becomes socially acceptable way of life (or in
simple term CULTURE)
I. DEFINITION
TO AN ORDINARY MAN:

It is something that refers to things considered good, desirable,

and virtuous as contrasted to less good, less desirable, and less
virtuous.
TRADITIONALLY (This definition is part of technical definition of the
concept of culture)
It has been linked with development progress by thinking or
education
THE MOST CLASSICAL DEFINITION
Framed by Edward B. Taylor He coined the use of the term
Culture (18th Century)
He defined culture as:
-A COMPLEX WHOLE which includes beliefs, art, morals, laws,
customs, and any other capabilities & habits acquired by men as
a member of society.
-SOCIAL HERITAGEThat is transmitted through the course of
INTERACTION.
-It compasses modes of thinking, feeling, and acting are common
to all mankind. Since it is common then there are patterns of
behavior.
LESLIE A. WHITE
-An organization of phenomena that is dependent upon symbols
which include a phenomena, includes acts (patterns of behavior;
objects) tools & things made by whose; ideas (beliefs &
knowledge; & sentiments) attitudes, values.
-with this definition we made the entire way of life followed by a
people & everything learned & shared by people in society.
-It includes all socially standardized ways of seeing & thinking
about the world, establishing preferences & goals, and also
consisting of the rules which generate & guide behavior

-More specifically, culture is everything that one must to behave

in the ways that are recognizable, predictable, and
understandable, to those people in any society.
-Culture also includes means materials interventions and
accomplishments such as tools, weapons, instruments, etc.
QUALITIES/ CHARACTERISTICS OF CULTURE
1. It is learned.
2. It is transmitted either orally or by writing as well as
consciously or unconsciously from one generation to another
or the generation of itself through CONDITION, IMITATION,
and SUGGESTION as well as identification, formal instruction,
mass communication; AND PUNISHMENT & REWARD.
3. It is social- It is a group product, it is shared.
4. It is gratifying, fulfilling
5. It is adaptive because culture is dynamic. No culture is
completely static nor permanent state. Culture is constantly
changing.

December 5, 2016
FAMILY PLANNING
THE RIGHTS OF FAMILY
ARTICLE ONE: THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE A STATE OF LIFE
I.

Human Person

Created in the image and likeness of God

Intellectual & volitional faculties
-intellectual & Volitional + Physical & Psychological + Biological &
emotional
-Dignity + rights
-Beloved of God + Focal concern of the Church

-But if you disregard the dignity of man you also disregarded God.
Disregarding the human person is equivalent to disregarding &
offending God.
-Exploitation is an anti-factor.
4 SIGNIFICANT ENEMIES OF HUMAN PERSON
1.
2.
3.
4.

The Human person itself.

Other human persons
Inhumane Organizations
Inhumane Government

-Any and all human rights are relevant to & affirmation by giving
him a right.
-Respect & observance of civil & political.
-Right to life from conception to death.
III. HUMAN FREEDOM
-To be free is a human quality.
-HUMAN FREEDOM is a human attribute.
-Only human persons have a faculty to make options.
3 RELEVANT QUALITIES OF HUMAN FREEDOM
1. TRIPOD Sufficient Due Deliberation Adequate Willingness
2.
3. The moral agent is free to do good not bad/evil.
IV. STATE OF LIFE
-The observance of physical movement is death.
SINGLE LIFE

MARRIED LIFE
Requirements for valid Marriage
1. They must be at least 3rd cousin.
2. They must have sufficient knowledge on the nature of
Marriage and consent to get married.
3. Theyre capacity to comply with the obligations of marriage
not as a temporary union.
All rights automatically imply the corresponding obligations
ARTICLE TWO
THE RIGHT TO A FREE AND DELIBERATE MARRIAGE
Marriage cannot be contracted except by the free and full
consent of the spouses duly expressed.
I.
II.
III.

Force; Fear
Force is etither a Moral or physical coercion
Fear is the confusion of the mind of a threaten impending
evil in the event that action contrary was taken

When persuasive force or fear can be used lawfully:

1. It does not violate a lawful order or a legitimate norm
2. Unless it is in relation to children in their formative years as
well as adults who have a weak upbringing.
3.
When used for marriage intents and purposes it is not lawful etc.
The following are usual instances when the reality of foce and/or
fear ordinarily come into play for the ultimate imposition of
unawanted marriage:

1.

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