Culture is based on historical precedence and traditions, while society is defined as an organized group with agreed upon norms of behavior. Culture consists of ideas, customs, and beliefs, and helps form society, but the two concepts are distinct. A key relationship is that culture and society mutually exist and influence one another, with culture playing a role in shaping society over time. Major cultures within a society include universal, sub-cultures, and countercultures, as well as material and nonmaterial aspects of culture.

1. Relationship
Between Culture &
Society!
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2. What is Society?
 Society is the bigger, cooperating social
group with an organized sense of
relationship.
 It is the sum of interactions and people.
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3. What is Culture?
 Culture can be seen as tradition that creates cohesion
and continuity.
 It has a lot of different meanings
 It is the traits of a populations behavior, values and
beliefs.
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4. Difference b/w society and
culture
 Base
Culture is based off of historical precedence
society is an agreement on how each member
should behave.
 Scope
Society is the overall bigger picture
Culture is a part of society
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5. Difference b/w society and
culture
 Flexibility
Culture is changing constantly and exclusive
Society is more stable and inclusive
 Examples
Examples of culture are fashion, language,
traditional products, music, art and ideals.
Examples of society are villages, small towns
and big cities
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6. Relationship b/w culture and
society
 Present and continuous movement
 Society and culture are closely related and interlinked
 But they are “Not Interchangeable”
 culture plays a key role in the formation of a society
 Characteristics of relationship b/w culture and society
 Mutual existence
 Not Identical
 Essential Difference
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7. Mutual Existence
 Culture and society are co-existent.
 No culture could exist without society and
equally no society could exist without culture
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8. Not Identical
 Culture and society may have the some common
elements but the two are not the same; they are not
identical.
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9. Essential difference
 Society is composed of people
 Culture consists of knowledge, ideas, customs, traditions,
mores, beliefs, skills, institutions, organizations and
artifacts.
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10. Major cultures within a
society
 Universal Culture
 Subcultures
 Countercultures
 Material Culture
 Nonmaterial culture
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11. Cultural Universals
 Cultural traits shared by nearly all societies
 Arts and Leisure activities
 Basic Needs
 Clothing, cooking, Housing
 Communication and Education
 Family Courtship
 kin groups, marriage
 Government and Economy
 Calendar, division of labor, government, law, property rights, status
differentiation, trade
 Technology
 Medicine, tool making
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12. Subcultures
 Groups that share values, norms, and behaviors that
are not shared by the entire population.
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13. Countercultures
 Groups that rejects the major values, norms,
and behaviors that is practiced by larger
society.
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14. Major cultures within a
society
 Universal Culture
 Subcultures
 Countercultures
 Material Culture
 Nonmaterial culture
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15. Material Culture
 Material culture includes all the physical things that people
create and attach meaning to
 Clothing, food, tools, architecture etc.
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16. Nonmaterial culture
 Nonmaterial culture includes creations and abstract ideas
that are not embodied in physical objects.
 Any intangible products created and shared between the
members of a culture
 Social roles, rules, ethics, and beliefs are just some
examples.
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17. Cultural Sociology
 Specialized field of sociology that studies the culture and its
relationship with society
 culture in the sociological field can be defined as the ways
of thinking, the ways of acting, and the material objects that
together shape a people's way of life.
 Every cultural phenomena should be seen as a product of
social processes
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18. Major areas of research
 Theoretical constructs in sociology of culture
 Cultural change
 Culture theory
 Cultural deviation
 Evolution of culture
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19. Cultural deviance
 Deviance describes an action or behavior that
violates social norms of a society
 Formal deviance: crime, Legal action
 Informal deviance: Ethical violations, Taboo
 Positive deviance
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20. Evolution of culture
 Human culture changes
 Similar to Darwinian theory of evolution
 New traditions, customs and rituals are adopted by society
 The ability of societies to adapt is critical to long term
survival
 Flexible cultures survive
 Rigid societies vanish
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