The document discusses the concept of culture, defining it as a complex whole encompassing beliefs, practices, values, and norms shared within a society. It outlines the characteristics of culture, including being learned, symbolic, shared, dynamic, flexible, adaptive, and integrated. Additionally, the document emphasizes the importance of understanding culture through the lens of social sciences and encourages individual activity to create a concept map on culture's characteristics.

2. • Transition Activity:
 Actions Speak
• Lesson Proper
• Activity

3. Learning Outcomes
At the end of the lesson the
students are expected to;
• To make sense of culture
through the understanding of
related concepts.
• Identify the characteristics of
culture in the lens of popular
culture.

5. Social sciences like
anthropology and sociology are
interested in people’s
behaviour. Society and culture
are among the most dominant
forces that shape how people
behave and act in given
situations.
Culture in General

6. The word
"culture" derives from a
French term, which in
turn derives from the
Latin "colere," which
means “cultivated land,
cultivation, nurture.”
Culture in General

7. Culture is typically
defined as “the complex
whole which encompasses
beliefs, practices, values,
attitudes, laws norms,
artifacts, symbols,
knowledge, and everything
that a person learns and
shares as a member of
society.”
Edward Burnett Tylor

8. Culture is a system
of symbolic and
expressive structures
that a particular group of
people developed and
utilized to enhanced
solidarity, understanding,
and transmission of
knowledge.
Marcel Danesi

9. Types of Culture

10. Culture is learned – we
acquire cultural
understanding through
experience and
observation through the
process of enculturation –
the means in which
individuals obtain and
transmit aspects of their
society’s culture.
Characteristics of Culture

11. Culture is symbolic – as it
provides meanings to
every human expression
be it in words or deeds,
with both verbal and non-
verbal symbols whose
meaning are formed and
accepted by societies
through their own
processes.
Characteristics of Culture

12. Culture is shared – it is
rooted in and is
transmitted in/by/through
groups/society. Indeed,
culture is commonly
known as the shared
ideas, beliefs, values,
concepts, memories,
understanding, etc. which
prevail in a society.
Characteristics of Culture

13. Culture is dynamic, flexible,
and adaptive – it lends itself
to change or
transformations. Any given
culture may borrow or
adopt positive elements
from other culture, and it
can also change or
transform as time change or
more precisely, to adapt to
changing times.
Characteristics of Culture

14. Culture is integrated – it relies
on social patters or systems
that are embedded in
societies. It is also all-
encompassing as it includes all
aspects of one society’s way of
life. Hence, in many occasions,
culture is also expressed in
terms of core values or values
that most people in a society
accepts, appreciates, and
cultivates as their own.
Characteristics of Culture

15. Culture and Related Terms

16. Individual Activity
Create a concept
map about the
characteristics of
culture and give its
definition.
Afterwards, cite
examples of each.