Nature and meaning of culture, concept of culture, characteristics of culture

1. NATUREAND THE
MEANINGOF CULTURE
• Concepts of Culture
• Characteristics of Culture
• Prepared by Marie Criste G. Tamboboy
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2. What is
Culture?
Culture
-the attitudes, values, customs, and
behavior patterns that characterize
a social group
-the ways in which particular group
of people lives, including their
shared knowledge, values, customs
and physical objects

3. What is Culture?
Set of learnedbehaviors, beliefs,
attitude, values andidealsthat
arecharacteristicsof a particular
society orpopulation(Ember,
1994)
..learnednorms,values,
knowledge, artifacts,language
andsymbolsthatareconstantly
communicatedamongpeople
whosharea commonway oflife
(Craig Calhoun1994)
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4. What is Culture?
• Culture is an organization of phenomena that
is dependent upon symbols, phenomena which
include:
-acts (patterns of behavior)
-objects (tools and things made by tools)
-ideas (beliefs, knowledge)
-sentiments (attitudesand values)
(Leslie A. White)
• Culture means the entire way of life of
people and everything learned and shared by
people in society. (Hunt et al, 1998)
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5. • Gerard Hendrik Hofstede states that culture
consists of patterns, explicit and implicit of
and for behavior.
It also refers to cumulative deposit of acquired
and transmitted by symbols constituting
knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, the
distinctive achievements of human groups,
attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion,
including their embodiments in artifacts,
notions of time, roles, spatial relations,
concepts of universe, and materials objects and
possessions acquired by a group of people in
the course of generation through individual and
group striving

6. • UNESCO (2002) defined culture as the set of distinctive spiritual,
material, intellectual, and emotional features of society or a social
group, and that it encompasses, in addition to a literature, lifestyles,
ways of living together, value systems, traditions and beliefs
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7. Concept of
Culture
• If you would ask 100
anthropologists to define culture,
you'd get 100 different definitions.
However, most of these
definitions would emphasize
roughly the same things: that
culture is shared, transmitted
through learning and helps shape
behavior and beliefs.
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8. Characteristicsof Culture
1. Culture is learned
-the first essential characteristics of culture
-can be learned
> indirectly through observation and imitation
> through experience
-can be taught by parents/family (generation to
generation)
Thought to ponder: A person feels like an outcast
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9. Characteristicsof Culture
2. Culture is shared by a group of people
-the literature and language are the same
-language, mannerisms and the way they
communicateis similar
-their roles in the family and society are defined
by culture
-their occupations and lifestyles may be
influenced by culture
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10. Characteristicsof Culture
3. Culture is cumulative
-Knowledge is stored and passed on
from one generation to the next
generation and new knowledge is
being added to what is existing
-The achievement of the present
and past make provision for the
future achievement of man.
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11. Characteristicsof Culture
4. Cultures change
-All cultural knowledge does not perpetually accumulate.At
the same time that new cultural traits are added, some old
ones are lost because they are no longer useful
>certain traditions or rituals are eliminated
> language and mannerisms ofpeople change
> migration and globalization lead to a mixing of cultures
-Due to education and increaseawareness,newer generations
become flexible to change and look at concepts like religion
and culture with a broader perspective and have a liberal view
about the,.
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12. Characteristicsof Culture
5. Culture is dynamic
-character of culture that stems fromits cumulative
quality
-No culture is ever in a permanent state.
-New ideas and new techniques are added and old ways
are constantly modifiedand discarded.
-Spread of traits fromindividual and fromone group to
another which is termedas diffusion.
>One form of diffusionis growthof language. Filipino
vocabulary has grownbecause of borrowing words from
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13. Characteristicsof Culture
6. Culture is ideational
-Culture is an ideal pattern of behavior
which members are expected to follow.
>Assign meanings to environment and
experiences by symbolizing them.
Language and money are symbols.
Language is the most important symbolic
component of culture.
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14. Characteristicsof Culture
7. Culture is diverse
-The total of human culture consists of a great
many separate cultures, each of them different
(a system that has several mutually
interdependentparts). Although these parts are
separate, they are interdependentwith one
another forming culture as a whole.
>For example, the choice of a marriage
partner involves many different parts of culture
as religion, economic class, and education.
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15. Characteristicsof Culture
8. Culture gives us a range of permissible behavior pattern
-It tells us how differentactivities shouldbe conducted
such as
> as a husband
> as a wife
>as a parent
>as a child, etc.
-It tells us how we should dress based on our gender,but
it allows us to dress in differentsituations in order to
communicate variedmessages and statuses
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16. "Culture is learned from the people
surrounding us. The distinct set of
beliefs, values, traditions and
behavior is passed down through
generations. It is a collective
phenomenon, and cannot exist in
isolation in a single individual. It is
shared at various levels, but is also
rich in diversity. Culture implies the
overall way of life for a group of
individuals. It is the glue that binds
people together, and enables them
to adapt, survive, and live together
in harmony."
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17. Reference
• Bustos, AliciaS. and Espiritu, Socorro C.,
PSYCHOLOGICAL, ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND
SOCIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF
EDUCATION, KATHA PublishingCo. Inc.
Quezon City
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