Becoming a Member of Society

GROUP 4
Becoming a Member of Society
•Enculturation & Socialization
•Conformity and Deviance
•Human Dignity, Rights and the
Common Good
Is Enculturation the same as Socialization?
Socialization refers to a lifelong social experience by
which people develop their human potential and learn culture.
Meanwhile enculturation is the process by which people learn
the requirements of their surrounding culture and acquire the
values and behaviors appropriate or necessary in that culture.
Socialization has three (3) goals: (1)It teaches impulse
control and help individuals develop a conscience. (2)It teaches
individuals how to prepare for and perform certain social roles.
(3)It cultivates shared sources of meaning and value
What do the words "conformity" and "deviance"
mean?
CONFORMITY
• behavior in accordance with socially accepted conventions or
standards
• the anticipated behavior to follow.
• is the desire to go along with the norms of a group of people,
so you will be accepted as an in-group person (and not
rejected as an out- group undesirable person).
DEVIANCE
• departing from usual or accepted standards,
especially in social or sexual behavior.
• a behavior that violates expected rules and norms
Human Dignity, Rights and
the Common Good
THEIR DEFINITIONS
HUMAN DIGNITY
An individual or group's sense of self-
respect and self-worth, physical and
psychological integrity and
empowerment.
HUMAN RIGHTS
• Human rights are moral principles or norms that describe
certain standards of human behavior and are regularly
protected as natural and legal rights in municipal and
international law. They are commonly understood as
inalienable, fundamental rights "to which a person is
inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human
being“ and which are "inherent in all human beings",[5]
regardless of their nation, location, language, religion, ethnic
origin or any other status.
THE COMMON GOOD
• that which benefits society as a whole
• an emphasis has been placed upon the possibility of
realizing a number of politically defined common
goods, including certain goods arising from the act of
citizenship. The common good has been defined as
either the corporate good of a social group, the
aggregate of individual goods, or the ensemble of
conditions for individual goods.