Culture and Moral Behavior

• 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.
How does culture influence one’s moral development
Laws, rules, and standards of attitudes and
behaviours are set and promulgated by the
community to promote a relationship that
binds them together.
☼ Culture is always social and communal

☼ Culture define the normative principles and
behavior of the society
It defines which particular principle and

behavior should be kept to serve the beat of
the community.
These as among the
serve
members protection and creates
themselves
atmosphere which promotes the welfarean
of the community.
☼ Culture develops restrictions and sets boundaries

☼ Culture conditions the mind
Culture helps in generating the
character and identify of its people,
including their moral character.
The moral judgments of those
authorities are considered essential in
moral issues of the community.
☼ Culture identifies the authorities or the governing

individuals or groups.
 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.
 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 in their and interpret the world.
☼ 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.
☼ 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.
☼ 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
 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.
 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.
☼ anything getting importance in
our daily life becomes our
values.
☼ is notbiological butit is social
production.
☼ the good idea and thinking of a
person.
☼responsible for the
spiritual fulfilment of needs
and wants.
☼ 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.
Action or actions that produce good
outcomes for the individuals as members of a
community, or society.
It is an act intended to produce kina and/
or fair outcomes.
- Schuman
To act according to one’s moral values and standards.
Children demonstrate pro-social and moral behaviour
when they share, help, co-operate, communicate,
sympathize or demonstrate ability to care about others.
- It may include formal or non-formal
educational system that provides a child his learning
needs.
- 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
- The institution that determines what is specifically
considered as right or wrong. It is composed of believers in
the same faith.
- Those agencies that are purposive of entertaining,
informing and entertaining, informing and educating
through various channels like radio, television,
printed materials etc.
• 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
It attempts to how
experiences
explain affects childhood the
development of a child. behavioral
This view focuses on the external activities that
can be observed and measured.
It is composed of the principles of:
 Classical Conditioning
 Operant Conditioning
It refers to a learning procedure
in which a biologically potent
stimulus is paired with
previously neutral
a stimulus.
It a type of associative learning
process through which the
strength of a behavior
modified by reinforcement.
is
This perspective focuses on the
experiences, freedom of subject’s
choice and strong motivation
in achieve self-actualization (your purpose in life)
It focuses on how the brain processes and
transforms information in various ways.
It is the scientific branch dealing with the
mind and human behavior.
It is the study of crime, criminal and
criminal behavior
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

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• Reflects the moral and ethical beliefs

and standards that speak to how

☼ Culture is always social and communal

It defines which particular principle and

☼ Culture develops restrictions and sets boundaries

☼ Culture identifies the authorities or the governing

The same provides us with our

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