Ethics Lecture on Morality and Culture

2. • Reflects the moral and ethical beliefs
and standards that speak to how
people should behave and interact
with others
• Refers to the outlook, attitude, values,
goals, and practices shared by a
group, organization, or society.
• Vary over time periods between
countries and geographic regions, and
among groups and organizations.

3. How does culture influence one’s moral development

4. ☼ Culture is always social and communal
Laws, rules, and standards of
attitudes and behaviors are set
and promulgated by the
community to promote a
relationship that binds them
together.

5. ☼ Culture define the normative principles and
behavior of the society
It defines which particular principle
andbehaviorshouldbekepttoserve
thebestofthecommunity.

6. ☼ Culture develops restrictions and sets boundaries
These serve as a protection
among members themselves
and the atmosphere which
promotes the welfare of the
community.

7. ☼ Culture conditions the mind
Culture helps in generating
the character and identity
of its people including
their moral character.

8. ☼ Culture identifies the authorities or the governing
individuals or groups.
The moral judgments of those
authorities are considered essential
in moral issues of the community.

9. It includes all the physical things that people create and
attach meaning to. Clothing, food, tools, and architecture
are examples of material culture that most people would
think of. Natural objects and materials (rock, dirt, trees,
etc.) aren’t considered to be part of material culture.
However, how people view natural objects and how they
use them are.

10. It includes creations and abstract ideas that are not embodied in
physical objects. In other words, any intangible products created
and shared between the members of a culture over time are
aspects of their non-material culture. Social roles, rules, ethics,
and beliefs are just some examples. All of them are crucial
guides for members of a culture to use to know how to behave
and interpret the world.

11. ☼ group of words or ideas having common meaning and is
shared to asocial situation.
☼ set of socially sound pattern, words, and sentences
having specific meaning and terminology common to the
same culture.
☼ like a vehicle through which we can carry out our
complex social activities, language is the foundation of a
culture and ticket to the entrance of a social life.

12. ☼ is anything that is used to stand for
something else. People who share a
culture often attach a specific meaning
to an object, gesture, sound, or image.

13. ☼ the rules and the guidelines which
specify the behavior of an individual.
☼ keep a person within the boundary
of society and its culture.
☼ gives us restriction about something
which to do and which not to do.

14.  FOLKWAYS
 are the simple customary was of the people. It
is the normal and habitual action of people
within a culture. Folkways are the recognized
or accepted ways of behavior. These are the
behavior pattern which a person use generally
in his daily life.

15. MORES
is a Latin word and the plural of mos
which means customs or belief of a
person. More refers to “what ought to
be and what ought not to be.” Mores
are serious norms.

16. ☼ anything getting importance in our
daily life becomes our values.
☼ is not biological but it is social
production.
☼ the good idea and thinking of a
person.

17. ☼responsible for the spiritual
fulfilment of needs and wants.

18. ☼ written and enforced rules that guide behavior.
☼ System of rules that are enforced by some
institution, like the police or the government.
Laws are different from mores in that they are
guided by an authority as opposed to a
society’s moral belief.

19. Action or actions that produce good
outcomesfortheindividuals asmembersof
acommunity,orsociety.

20. It is anactintendedtoproducekina
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21. Toactaccordingtoone’smoralvaluesandstandards.
Children demonstrate pro-social and moral
behaviour when they share, help, co-operate,
communicate, sympathize or demonstrate ability to
careaboutothers.

23. - It may include formal or non-formal educational
system that provides a child his learning needs.

24. - the basic unit in a society
It includes one’s biological or
adoptive family of orientation
The same provides us with our
basic needs to survive and
develop as a significant
member of the society

25. - The institution that determines what is specifically
considered as right or wrong. It is composed of believers in
the same faith.

26. - Those agencies that are purposive of entertaining,
informing and entertaining, informing and educating
through various channels like radio, television,
printed materials etc.

27. • These normative beliefs,
together with related cultural
values and rituals, impose a
sense of order and control
on aspects of life that might
otherwise appear chaotic or
unpredictable

28. It attempts to explain
experiences affects
how childhood
the behavioral
development of a child.

29. This view focuses on the external activities that can be
observed and measured.
It is composed of the principles of:
 Classical Conditioning
 Operant Conditioning

30. It refers to a learning procedure
in which
stimulus
a biologically potent
is paired with a
previously neutral stimulus.

31. It a type of associative learning
process through
strength of a
which the
behavior is
modified by reinforcement.

32. focuses on the subject’s
This perspective
experiences, freedom of choice and strong motivation
in achieve self-actualization (your purpose in life)

33. processes and
It focuses on how the brain
transforms information in various ways.

34. It is the scientific branch dealing with the
mind and human behavior.

35. It is the study of crime, criminal and
criminal behavior

36. It is the manifestation/displays of thought, perception,
emotion, determination, memory and imagination that takes
place within the brain.
Mind is often used to refer especially to the thought
processes of reason