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SALMERO, MARIA ALENA
Most fundamental characteristics
of culture:
1.   Culture is always a product of human
     behavior
2.   It is always transmitted through learning
3.   It always gratifies human needs
4.   It always tends toward integrating a society.
CULTURE IS
SHARED AND
TRANSMITTED
   It is shared by and is transmitted to and among
    the members of a social group..
   Generally , man transmits culture by means of
    ideas
   The acquired learning of culture is passed on
    to succeeding generations primarily through
    language, but other symbolic means of
    communications are utilized
CULTURE IS LEARNED
AND ACQUIRED
   It has to be understood that not all things
    shared generally by a population are cultural.
   Culture is not instinctive
   It is acquired by each person through the
    senses and from experiences.
   Each individual must learn through himself.
   No one is born equipped with a particular
    language, or knowledge of religious beliefs
CULTURE IS SOCIAL
   Culture is a group product developed by many
    persons interacting in a group.
   It is social due to man’s natural tendency of
    sociability and gregariousness.
CULTURE IS
IDEATIONAL
   Man forms ideas and uses them to assign
    meanings to his environment and experiences
   Symbols are symbolized
CULTURE GRATIFIES
HUMAN NEEDS
   An individual is likely to utilize habitually a
    cultural technique which gratifies him in some
    way.
   The patterns of culture continues to persist if
    they continue to satisfy man’s need
   Biological needs are components of culture
CULTURE IS ADAPTIVE
   All culture is dynamic
   They change over time
   These changes may be in form of
    discoveries, inventions, or cultural borrowings.
CULTURE
TENDS
TOWARD
INTEGRATIO
N
   Means that the elements or traits that makes
    up that culture are not just a random
    assortment of customs but are mostly adjusted
    to or consistent with one another.
   A culture may be integrated for psychological
    reasons. The traits of culture - attitude,
    values, ideals, and rules for behavior – are
    stored after all, in the brains of individuals.
CULTURE IS
CUMULATIVE
   Through the ages, the people of any given
    place are able to retain certain features of their
    culture that are significant in their relationship
    and interactions with their fellow human
    beings.
ADAPTATIONS OF
CULTURE
Principal ways in which this
process of culture adaptation
occurs
   Parallelism – independent development of a
    culture characteristics in two widely separated
    cultures

   Diffusion – much more common process of
    patterns and traits passing back and forth from
    one culture to another
   Fission – a process that can be traced
    historically when a long established society
    breaks up into two or more independent units

   Convergence – is the fusion of two or more
    cultures into a new one which is somewhat
    different from its predecessors.
FUNCTIONS OF
CULTURE
   Culture as a category




   Culture as a tool in prediction
More specific functions of
culture:
   Culture serve as “trademark” or special feature
    that distinguishes one society from another.

   Culture brings together, contains, and
    interprets the values of a society in a more or
    less systematic manner.
   Culture provides one of the most important
    bases for social solidarity

   Culture provides a blue-print of, as well as the
    materials for social structure.

   The culture of any society is the dominant
    factor in establishing and molding the social
    personality

   The culture of a society provides behavioral
    patterns

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Characteristics of culture

  • 2. Most fundamental characteristics of culture: 1. Culture is always a product of human behavior 2. It is always transmitted through learning 3. It always gratifies human needs 4. It always tends toward integrating a society.
  • 4. It is shared by and is transmitted to and among the members of a social group..  Generally , man transmits culture by means of ideas  The acquired learning of culture is passed on to succeeding generations primarily through language, but other symbolic means of communications are utilized
  • 6. It has to be understood that not all things shared generally by a population are cultural.  Culture is not instinctive  It is acquired by each person through the senses and from experiences.  Each individual must learn through himself.  No one is born equipped with a particular language, or knowledge of religious beliefs
  • 8. Culture is a group product developed by many persons interacting in a group.  It is social due to man’s natural tendency of sociability and gregariousness.
  • 10. Man forms ideas and uses them to assign meanings to his environment and experiences  Symbols are symbolized
  • 12. An individual is likely to utilize habitually a cultural technique which gratifies him in some way.  The patterns of culture continues to persist if they continue to satisfy man’s need  Biological needs are components of culture
  • 14. All culture is dynamic  They change over time  These changes may be in form of discoveries, inventions, or cultural borrowings.
  • 16. Means that the elements or traits that makes up that culture are not just a random assortment of customs but are mostly adjusted to or consistent with one another.  A culture may be integrated for psychological reasons. The traits of culture - attitude, values, ideals, and rules for behavior – are stored after all, in the brains of individuals.
  • 18. Through the ages, the people of any given place are able to retain certain features of their culture that are significant in their relationship and interactions with their fellow human beings.
  • 20. Principal ways in which this process of culture adaptation occurs  Parallelism – independent development of a culture characteristics in two widely separated cultures  Diffusion – much more common process of patterns and traits passing back and forth from one culture to another
  • 21. Fission – a process that can be traced historically when a long established society breaks up into two or more independent units  Convergence – is the fusion of two or more cultures into a new one which is somewhat different from its predecessors.
  • 23. Culture as a category  Culture as a tool in prediction
  • 24. More specific functions of culture:  Culture serve as “trademark” or special feature that distinguishes one society from another.  Culture brings together, contains, and interprets the values of a society in a more or less systematic manner.
  • 25. Culture provides one of the most important bases for social solidarity  Culture provides a blue-print of, as well as the materials for social structure.  The culture of any society is the dominant factor in establishing and molding the social personality  The culture of a society provides behavioral patterns