SOCIETY AND

CULTURE
MODULE 1
 Defining Culture
Culture is a term used by social scientists to encompass all
the facets of human experience .
Culture refers to the way we understand ourselves both as
individuals and as members of society.
Different societies have different cultures
“A culture represents the beliefs and practices of
a group, while society represents the people
who share those beliefs and practices.”
CULTURE DIFFERS FROM SOCIETY
 Different societies have different cultures;
however it is important not to confuse the idea of culture with
society.
A culture represents the beliefs and practices of a group, while
society represents the people who share those beliefs and
practices.
Neither society nor culture could exist without the other
 Material culture refers to the objects or belongings of a group of
people (such as automobiles, stores, and the physical structures where
people worship). Nonmaterial culture, in contrast, consists of the
ideas, attitudes, and beliefs of a society. Material and nonmaterial
aspects of culture are linked, and physical objects often symbolize
cultural ideas.
Culture thus refers to a human-made environment which includes all the material and
nonmaterial products of group life that are transmitted from one generation to the next
Culture varies from place to place and country to country. Its
development is based on the
historical process operating in a local, regional or national
context.
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The term was first used in this way by the pioneer English Anthropologist
Edward B. Tylor in his book, Primitive Culture, published in 1871.
 
  
High culture
popular culture
aboriginal culture

Other “culture” ?
In sociology, the term society refers not
to a group of people but to the complex
pattern of the norms of interaction that
arise among them
 society may be defined as a complex of
groups in reciprocal relationships
interacting upon one another, enabling
each person to achieve the fulfillment of
life.
Society may be viewed as the process of stimulus response relationship which result in interaction, communication and
consensus.
 According to Ginsberg, “A society is a collection of
individuals united by certain relations or modes of
behaviour which mark them off from others, who
don not enter into those relations or who differ from
them in behaviour”

It is both structural, functional and dynamic organisation.

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◦CULTURAL CONCEPTS

◦CULTURAL RELATIVISM

◦ETHNOCENTRISM

◦XENOCENTRISM

◦CULTURE SHOCK

◦CULTURE LAG