CULTURE

Presented by:
RODI, Ma-Anne Joyce C.
FUNCTIONS OF
CULTURE
 FUNCTIONS OF CULTURE

 It serves as a “trademark” of the people in a

society.
 It gives meaning to a man’s existence.
 Culture unifies diverse behavior.
 Culture provides social solidarity.
 Culture establishes social personality.
 FUNCTIONS OF CULTURE

 Culture provides systematic behavioral

pattern.
 Culture promotes meaning to individual’s
existence.
 Culture predicts social behavior.
 Culture provides social structure category.
 MODES OF
ACQUIRING CULTURE
 MODES OF ACQUIRING CULTURE

 Imitation
 Indoctrination or Suggestion – this may take
formal training or informal teaching.
 Conditioning – the values, beliefs, &
attitudes of other people are acquired
through conditioning.
ADAPTATION OF
CULTURE
 ADAPTATION OF CULTURE

 Parallelism - the same culture may take

place in two or more different places.
 Diffusion – behavioral patterns that pass
back and forth from one culture to another.
 Convergence – when two or more cultures
are merged into one culture
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 Fission – when people break away from the

original culture and start developing a
different culture of their own.
 Acculturation - individuals incorporate the
behavioral patterns of other cultures into their
own either voluntarily or by force.
 Assimilation – when the culture of a larger
society is adopted by a smaller society
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 Accommodation – when the larger or smaller

society are able to respect and tolerate each
other’s culture .