is the characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people, encompassing language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts.

is a way of life of a group of people--the behaviors, beliefs, values, and symbols that they accept, generally without thinking about them, and that are passed along by communication and imitation from one generation to the next.

5 ASPECT OF CULTURE

-are individual beliefs that motivate people to act one way or another. They serve as a guide for human behavior. -Abstract concepts that make judgements on and/or determine what is good and desirable and what is bad and undesirable within a culture.

-system are structured sets of principle and tenets held to be true by individuals or larger groups encompassing aspects such as morality, life purpose or emperical morality.

2 TYPES OF BELIEFS

explain the origin the universe, the existence of gods and can set moral codes

explain how society should be managed and governed and are often based on ideas about power and resource distribution.

-a system of conventional spoken, manual (signed), or written symbols by means of which human beings express themselves. -System of communication that humans use to express values, beliefs and ideas as well as to forge relationships and establish sort of binding understanding between among each other. -binds culture into one. -is crucial to every society

are the only species in the world that have complex language and thought process

take the form of words, sounds, gestures, ideas, or visual images and are used to convey other ideas and beliefs.

Set of prescribed activities that has a religious or cultural significance to a cultural group, folkculture and subculture

Guide the specific behavior of an individual in society. Acceptable actions within boundaries set by society or culture.

Rules and regulations established by social institutions and governments for the people to comply with.

guided by the standard of morality

codified by government and backed by the state power to police

traditional customs of a culture but are socially accepted but are not morally significant. (FOLKWAYS)

Physical object that manifest culture's norms and values. The material representation of culture

Characteristics of Culture

You learn from your family and other people around you. You learn what is right and what is wrong. What is accepted or not, what is your roles and how you must do certain things in a certain way. You learn from your friends, peers and other people you encounter.

Culture binds together the members of society as they get along with eah other. People use this learned culture to understand every individuals perception, ideas and values.

Culture is large and abstract concept. It consists of abstract ideas, values and perceptions hat informthe way people behave and react in a given situation. It becomes a design for people's thoughts and actions that will help them survive challenges within the society.

It is created by humans trough their collective behavior. It is also a product of people's changing perceptions, patterns and symbols bacause culture is not permanent and is subject to change over time.

Cultural changes are evident in early human civilization which lived nomadically, hunting and gathering food in their environment. But after exhausting natural resources of one area, they transfer to another.

compared culture into an iceberg wherein part is submerged in water, while other is above the water

Elements of culture according to EDWARD T. HALL

Concepts of Culture