UNDERSTANDING

CULTURE, SOCIETY AND

POLITICS

ASPECTS OF CULTURE
ASPECTS OF CULTURE

ODynamic,
Flexible, and
Adaptive
OCultural behaviors
allow people to fit
into and adapt to
their respective
environments.
O For instance:

❑people wear clothes

to protect their body
from harsh climate.
❑Search food for
nourishment and
survival.
OIn contemporary societies,
where culture is highly
developed, people can
even fit their environment
to their daily needs.
For instance :

❑ building temperate
houses in tropical
regions or constructing
an ice amusement park
in the Philippines
OThe cumulative and
social nature of human
ideas, activities, and
artifacts gives a
tremendous potential
source of variability in
adaptation.
OPeople can also borrow
such potential from other
groups if their cultural
behaviors are found to
have survival value:
OThis means that some
cultures through
experience have developed
diverse ways in adapting to
their environment, which is
even tantamount to their
survival in the planet.
ASPECTS OF CULTURE

OShared and
Contested