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    Process of Adaptation and Modification

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    Cultural adaptation is defined as a society's ability to modify its culture in response to environmental changes. The scale of cultural changes can range from slight modifications to livelihood systems to fundamental transformations of social, ethnic, psychological, and ideological aspects of the entire cultural system. Culture consists of both non-material elements like values, beliefs, symbols, and language, as well as material elements like tools, technology, clothing, and means of transportation. Key non-material elements of culture include values, beliefs, norms, and symbols and language.

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    Cultural adaptation is defined as a society's ability to modify its culture in response to environmental changes. The scale of cultural changes can range from slight modifications to livelihood systems to fundamental transformations of social, ethnic, psychological, and ideological aspects of the entire cultural system. Culture consists of both non-material elements like values, beliefs, symbols, and language, as well as material elements like tools, technology, clothing, and means of transportation. Key non-material elements of culture include values, beliefs, norms, and symbols and language.

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    Cultural adaptation is defined as a society's ability to modify its culture in response to environmental changes. The scale of cultural changes can range from slight modifications to livelihood systems to fundamental transformations of social, ethnic, psychological, and ideological aspects of the entire cultural system. Culture consists of both non-material elements like values, beliefs, symbols, and language, as well as material elements like tools, technology, clothing, and means of transportation. Key non-material elements of culture include values, beliefs, norms, and symbols and language.

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    PROCESS OF ADAPTATION

    AND MODIFICATION
    Cultural adaptation is a relatively new concept used to define
    the specific capacity of human beings and human societies to
    overcome changes of their natural and social environment by
    modification to culture. The scale of culture changes depends
    on the extent of habitat changes and could vary from slight
    modifications in livelihood systems to principal transformation
    of the whole cultural system, including its social, ethnic,
    psychological and ideological spheres.
    ELEMENTS OF CULTURE
    Culture was defined as the symbols, beliefs, values and artifacts that are
    part of any society. As this definition suggests, there are two basic
    components of culture: ideas and symbols on the one hand and artifacts
    ( material object) on the other.
     NON-MATERIAL CULTURE – includes values, belief, symbols and
    language that define a society.
     MATERIAL CULTURE – includes all the society’s physical objects,
    such as its tools and technology, clothing eating utensils and means of
    transportations.
    ELEMENTS OF CULTURE
    Values and Beliefs – Values are a culture’s standard
    for discerning what is good and just in society. Values
    are deeply embedded and critical for transmitting and
    teaching a culture’s belief. Belief are the tenets or
    convictions that people hold to be true. Individuals in a
    society have specific beliefs, but they also share
    collective values.
     Norms – define how to behave in accordance with what a society has
    defined as good, right and important and most members of the society
    adhere to them. Formal Norms are established , written rules. They are
    behaviors worked out and agreed upon in order to suit and serve the
    most people. Informal Norms are casual behaviors that are generally
    and widely conformed to-is longer. Mores are norms that embody the
    moral views and principles of a group. Violating them can have a
    serious consequences. Folkways are norms without any moral
    underpinnings. Rather, folkways direct appropriate behavior in the day-
    to-day practices and expressions of a culture.
    Symbols and Language – Symbols – such as
    gestures, signs, objects. Signals and words – help
    people understand that world. They provide clues to
    understanding experiences by conveying recognizable
    meanings that are shared by societies. Language is a
    symbolic system through which people communicate
    and through which culture is transmitted.

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