3. *LANGUAGE
It forms the core of all culture.When people
share a language,they share a
condensed,very flexible set of symbols and
meanings.
4. *SYMBOLS
A symbol is anything that carries a particular meaning
recognized by people who share culture.Symbol serve
as the basis for everyday reality,vary within
cultures,cross-culturally and change over time.
7. VALUES/ACCOUNTS
Values-a culturally defined standaeds of
desirability,goodness and beauty,which serve as broad
guideliness for social living.
Accounts-how people use that common language to
explain,justify,rationalize,excuse,or legitimize our
behaviorto themselves and others.
11. MORES
They are customary behavior of folkways which have
taken in a moralistic value.
This includes respect for authority, marriage and sex
behavior patterns, religious rituals, and other basic
codes of human behavior.
13. FOLKWAYS
These are behavior patterns of society which are
organized and repetitive.
It involves the way we eat, how we dress, and other
patterns we follow because they have been impressed
upon us from the time we were born.
14. RITUALS
These are highly scripted ceremonies or strips of
interaction that follow a specific sequence of actions.
They occur at predetermined times or triggered by
specific cues.
15. *MATERIAL COMPONENT
Refers to physical objects of culture such as machines,
equipment, tools, books, clothing, etc.
16. *THE ORGANIZATION OF CULTURE
While the culture of a group is an integrated network
of folkways, mores, systems of beliefs, and
institutional patterns, it can be broken into simple
units or elements called cultural traits.
17. TRANSMISSION OF CULTURE
1. enculturation
It is the process of learning culture of one’s own group.
2. Acculturation
the process of learning some new traits from another
culture.
3. Assimilation
it is the term used for a process in which an individual
entirely loses any awareness of his/her previous group
identity and takes on the culture and attitudes of
another group.