Relationship

Between Culture &

Society!
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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
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
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
7 Mutual Existence

🠶 Culture and society are co-existent.

🠶 No culture could exist without society and
equally no society could exist without culture
8 Not Identical

🠶 Culture and society may have the some common elements

but the two are not the same; they are not identical.
9 Essential difference

🠶 Society is composed of people

🠶 Culture consists of knowledge, ideas, customs, traditions,
mores, beliefs, skills, institutions, organizations and artifacts.
10 Major cultures within a
society

🠶 Universal Culture
🠶 Subcultures
🠶 Countercultures
🠶 Material Culture
🠶 Nonmaterial culture
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
12 Subcultures

🠶 Groups that share values, norms, and behaviors that are not
shared by the entire population.
13 Countercultures

🠶 Groups that rejects the major values, norms, and

behaviors that is practiced by larger society.
15 Material Culture

🠶 Material culture includes all the physical things that people

create and attach meaning to
🠶 Clothing, food, tools, architecture etc.
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.
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
18 Major areas of research

🠶 Theoretical constructs in sociology of culture

🠶 Cultural change
🠶 Culture theory
🠶 Cultural deviation
🠶 Evolution of culture