L1: SHARING OF SOCIAL & CULTURAL BACKGROUND

  • CULTURAL IDENTITY - An individual’s cultural identity refers to the identity or feeling of belonging to a group. It’s considered part of a person’s self-conception and self-perception.
  • It pertains to someone’s nationality, ethnicity, religion, social class, generation, locality, or any kind of social group with its own distinct culture.
  • CULTURAL BACKGROUND - On the other hand, essentially consists of the ethnic, religious, racial, gender, linguistic, or other socioeconomic factors and values that shape an individual’s upbringing.
  • The cultural background can be shaped at the family, societal, or organizational level. Sociologically people with different cultural backgrounds need to interact with each other.

==GENDER AND SEXUALITY== - A common distinguishing factor of a person’s cultural background is gender and sexuality.

  1. Gender refers to the personal traits and social roles of the male and female members of society. A cultural meaning attached to being masculine and feminine influences personal identities. Ex. Men, women, transgender, intersex, and genderqueer, among others.
  2. Sex - biological traits that society associates with being male/female.
  3. Sexuality is the state of being either masculine or feminine. Sexual attraction, practices & identity may or may not align with sex and gender. Ex. Heterosexual, Homosexual (Gay/Lesbian), bisexual queer, among others.

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SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS

  • Another common cultural identification factor is the level of an individual‘s social standing and financial position in society. This is known as @@socioeconomic status,@@ a personal or family’s financial and social esteem on the basis of income, education, and occupation.
  • Hence, it is the totality of a person’s social position and wealth combined.
  • The @@Socioeconomic class@@ refers to the status of every individual from the sociological and economic p.o.v.
  • @@Social status@@ means a person’s standing or rank in the social ladder of stratification based on prestige, power, popularity, etc. Economic status means a person’s place in society’s economic stratification based on wealth, property, and total assets.

ETHNICITY

  • Is a condition in which a social group belongs to a common national or cultural tradition, other traits in common.
  • Ethno-linguistic groups include the Ivatans, Ilocanos, Pangasinenses, Kapampangas, Tagalogs, Bicolanos, Visayas - Masbatenos, Hilagaynons/Ilonggos, Cebuanos, Boholanos, Warays, and Surigaonons, Mindanao - Maranaos, Subanons, and Zamboangueno.