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    This document defines culture and its key elements. Culture refers to the knowledge, beliefs, arts, customs, and habits acquired by humans as members of society, according to two definitions. Material culture includes tangible objects while non-material culture consists of ideas, behaviors, and knowledge. Characteristics of culture include being learned, shared, social, ideational, and adaptive. Elements of culture are norms, values, language, and fashion trends. Culture serves functions like distinguishing societies, integrating values, and producing social personalities and behavioral patterns. Culture is acquired through imitation, indoctrination, and conditioning.

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    This document defines culture and its key elements. Culture refers to the knowledge, beliefs, arts, customs, and habits acquired by humans as members of society, according to two definitions. Material culture includes tangible objects while non-material culture consists of ideas, behaviors, and knowledge. Characteristics of culture include being learned, shared, social, ideational, and adaptive. Elements of culture are norms, values, language, and fashion trends. Culture serves functions like distinguishing societies, integrating values, and producing social personalities and behavioral patterns. Culture is acquired through imitation, indoctrination, and conditioning.

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    This document defines culture and its key elements. Culture refers to the knowledge, beliefs, arts, customs, and habits acquired by humans as members of society, according to two definitions. Material culture includes tangible objects while non-material culture consists of ideas, behaviors, and knowledge. Characteristics of culture include being learned, shared, social, ideational, and adaptive. Elements of culture are norms, values, language, and fashion trends. Culture serves functions like distinguishing societies, integrating values, and producing social personalities and behavioral patterns. Culture is acquired through imitation, indoctrination, and conditioning.

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    This document defines culture and its key elements. Culture refers to the knowledge, beliefs, arts, customs, and habits acquired by humans as members of society, according to two definitions. Material culture includes tangible objects while non-material culture consists of ideas, behaviors, and knowledge. Characteristics of culture include being learned, shared, social, ideational, and adaptive. Elements of culture are norms, values, language, and fashion trends. Culture serves functions like distinguishing societies, integrating values, and producing social personalities and behavioral patterns. Culture is acquired through imitation, indoctrination, and conditioning.

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    C U LT U R E

    W h a t is C U LT U R E ?
    • According to Edward
    Taylor, “Culture refers
    to that complex
    whole which includes
    knowledge, beliefs,
    art, morals, law,
    customs, and any
    other capabilities and
    habits acquired by
    man as a member of
    society”.
    • According to Robert
    Redfield, “Culture is an
    organized body of
    conventional
    understanding manifest
    in art and artifacts,
    which, persisting
    through tradition,
    characterizes a human
    group”.
    Types of CULTURE
    • Material culture refers to the concrete and
    tangible things that man creates and uses. They
    range from the prehistoric stone tools of primitive
    man to the most advanced computer of the
    modern man

    • Non-material culture consists of words people


    use; the habits they follow; the ideas, customs
    and behavior that any society professes and to
    which they strive to conform. Laws, techniques,
    lifestyle, and knowledge are included, too.
    Characteristics of Culture
    • Culture is learned
    and acquired.
    • Culture is shared
    and transmitted.
    • Culture is social.
    • Culture is ideational.
    • Culture gratifies
    human needs.
    • Culture is adaptive.
    • Culture tends
    toward integration.
    • Culture is
    cumulative.
    Elements of Culture
    1.Norms- these are guides or models of
    behavior which tell us what is appropriate or
    inappropriate, what is right or wrong
    a. Folkways
    b. Mores
    c. Laws
    2.Values- values represent the standards
    we use to evaluate the desirability of things
    a. Bayanihan or spirit of kinship and
    camaraderie
    b. Hospitality
    Continuation….
    c. Respect to elders
    d. Utang na Loob
    e. Bahala na
    f. Filipino Time

    3.Language- it refers to a system of symbols that


    have specific and arbitrary meaning in a given
    society

    4.Fashion, fads, and craze- these are other


    elements of culture that are short-lived social norms
    with which people are expected to comply with
    Functions of Culture
    • Culture as a Category

    - As a general category for the classification


    of phenomena
    • Culture as a tool in prediction

    • Some of the more specific functions of culture


    distinct from the objectives of the various social
    institutions:
    1. Culture serves as trademark or special feature
    that distinguishes one society from one another.
    2. Culture brings together, contains, and interprets the
    values of a society in a more or less systematic
    manner.
    Continuation…
    3.Culture provides one of the most important
    bases for social solidarity.
    4.Culture provides a blueprint of, as well as
    the materials for social structure.
    5.The culture of any society is largely responsible
    for producing a social personality.
    6.The culture of a society provides
    behavioral patterns.
    7.Culture provides individuals with the meaning
    and direction of their existence.
    Modes of Acquiring Culture
    • Imitation
    -is the act of copying the
    behavior of someone observed
    • Indoctrination
    -the process of teaching a
    person or group to accept a set of
    beliefs
    • Conditioning
    -the process of training
    or accustoming a person
    to behave in a certain way or to
    accept certain circumstances
    Th a n k you!
    Prepared by:

    Jayson C. Lardizabal

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