The document summarizes the socio-cultural setting of the Philippines. It describes Filipino culture as a blend of traditional Filipino and Spanish Catholic traditions with some American and Asian influences. It also notes that Filipinos are generally family-oriented and religious. Some key socio-cultural aspects discussed include the importance of family and community relationships, social classes between the rich/educated and poor/uneducated, and traditions like dowries. The document also provides brief overviews of occupations, housing, diet, sports, holidays, and issues like economic divisions and urban migration.

1. Socio-Cultural Setting:
The Philippines

2. What is socio-cultural condition in the
Philippines?
The culture of the Philippines
comprises a blend of traditional
Filipino and Spanish Catholic
traditions, with influences from
America and other parts of Asia. The
Filipinos are family oriented and often
religious with an appreciation for art,
fashion, music and food.

4. EXAMPLES
Socio-cultural factors
include consumers' lifestyles,
buying habits, education, religion,
beliefs, values, demographics,
social classes, sexuality and
attitudes.

6. CASTE SYSTEM IN THE
PHILIPPINES.
It is between the poor and the
rich, and the educated and
the non-educated.

7. DOWRY
Property or money brought
by a bride to her husband
on their marriage.

8. social organization on a
communal basis,
loyalty to a sociopolitical
grouping based on religious
or ethnic affiliation.
COMMUNALISM

9. DRINKING

10. Here are many other adverse
effects of drug abuse on
families: family conflict that
might include physical and/or
mental abuse and neglect.
DRUG ADDICTION

11. Socio-Cultural Setting:
The Philippines
Way of Life
One of the most notable
characteristics of Filipino society
is its strong family and
community relationships. These
are strengthened by the
traditional Filipino concept of

12. Socio-Cultural Setting:
The Philippines
utang na loob, in which an act of
voluntary assistance creates an
obligation that the receiver must
attempt to repay through
reciprocal assistance. This often
creates a long-term relationship
of giving and receiving between

13. Political Setting:
The Philippines
individuals or families, and some
obligations can last for
generations. The social values of
loyalty, support, and trust are
deeply embedded in the
Philippine identity. Respect for
others, especially elder members

14. Socio-Cultural Setting:
The Philippines
of society and people in
positions of authority, is taught
from an early age.

15. Socio-Cultural Setting:
The Philippines
In Philippine villages, houses are
traditionally constructed of
bamboo and nipa palm thatching
and raised above the ground on
poles. Simple wooden houses
with galvanized iron roofs are
also common. Except in the

16. Socio-Cultural Setting:
The Philippines
remotest areas, rural houses are
equipped with electricity and
indoor plumbing. More services
and modern facilities are
available in towns and cities. The
influence of Western culture is
more evident in urban areas,

17. Socio-Cultural Setting:
The Philippines
where lifestyles tend to be more
modern.

18. Socio-Cultural Setting:
The Philippines
Farming, fishing, and forestry
are the primary occupations in
rural areas. Many of the rural
poor are employed as tenant
farmers and landless agricultural
workers. Most urban residents
are employed in the service

19. Socio-Cultural Setting:
The Philippines
sector or in manufacturing.
There is a growing middle class
of government employees,
small-business
teachers, and
owners.

20. Socio-Cultural Setting:
The Philippines
The Philippine diet usually
consists of boiled rice or ground
corn, vegetables, fresh or salted
fish, and fruits. A locally made
beverage is tuba, a fermented
coconut wine.

21. Socio-Cultural Setting:
The Philippines
Traditional sports include arnis,
a kind of fencing with wooden
sticks, and sipa, a game much
like volleyball except
players use only their
that the
feet to
move the ball. Cockfighting and
boxing are popular spectator

22. Socio-Cultural Setting:
The Philippines
sports, and American influence
is seen in the wide popularity of
baseball
Christian
and basketball.
holidays such as the
annual patron-saint fiestas and
the crucifixion reenactments at
Easter are important and well-
attended community events.

23. Socio-Cultural Setting:
The Philippines
Social Issues
Significant economic divisions
exist in the Philippines. About 37
percent of the population lived
below the poverty line in 1997.
The wealthiest 10 percent of
families earn more than twice as

24. Socio-Cultural Setting:
The Philippines
much as the poorest 40 percent.
The wealthy upper class, which
and
includes landowners
business executives, enjoys a
high standard of living.
wealthy people live in
Some
large
homes in guarded subdivisions.

25. Socio-Cultural Setting:
The Philippines
Meanwhile, many rural families
cannot afford to provide basic
essentials such as clothing and
for their children.
in urban areas is
medicine
Income
generally higher than in rural
areas, drawing a constant flow of
migrants to the cities.

26. Socio-Cultural Setting:
The Philippines
Some migrants live as squatters,
dwelling in crowded slum areas
in makeshift housing that lacks
running water, sewerage
systems, and electricity. They
tend to work as vendors, street
hawkers, and unskilled laborers.

27. Socio-Cultural Setting:
The Philippines
Culture
The arts of the Philippines reflect
a society with diverse cultural
peoples had
influences
Malayan
contact with traders
and traditions. The
early
who
introduced Chinese and Indian

28. Socio-Cultural Setting:
The Philippines
influences. Islamic traditions
were first introduced to the
southern
Malays of the
Philippine Islands in the 14th
century. Most modern aspects of
Philippine cultural life evolved
under the foreign rule of Spain
and, later, the United States.

29. Socio-Cultural Setting:
The Philippines
In the 16th century the Spanish
imposed a foreign culture based
in Catholicism. While the
were
peoples
through religious
lowland
acculturated
conversion, the Muslims and
some upland tribal groups

30. Socio-Cultural Setting:
The Philippines
maintained cultural
those
independence. Among
who were assimilated arose an
began to
educated elite who
establish a modern Filipino
literary tradition.

31. Socio-Cultural Setting:
The Philippines
During the first half of the 20th
century, American influence
made the Philippines one of the
most Westernized nations in
Southeast Asia. The cultural
movements of Europe and the
United States profoundly

32. Socio-Cultural Setting:
The Philippines
influenced Filipino artists, even
independence in 1946.
after
While
forms,
on Western
the works of
Filipino
drawing
however,
painters,
musicians are
writers, and
imbued with
distinctly Philippine themes. By

33. Socio-Cultural Setting:
The Philippines
expressing the cultural richness
of the archipelago in all its
diversity,
helped to
Filipino artists have
shape a sense of
national identity.

34. Socio-Cultural Setting:
The Philippines
Many Malay cultural traditions
have survived despite centuries
of foreign rule. Muslims and
traditions in
tribal groups maintain
music,
upland
distinct
dance, and sculpture. In
addition, many Filipino artists

35. Socio-Cultural Setting:
The Philippines
folk
incorporate indigenous
motifs into modern forms.

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The Philippines
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37. Socio-Cultural Setting:
The Philippines
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38. Understanding
Socio-Cultural Setting
as we

39. establish a
Socio-Cultural
Community
for

42. Republic of the Philippines
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