ASPECTS

OF
CULTURE
LEARNINGCOMPETENCY
Explain the importance
of cultural Relativism in
attaining cultural
understanding.
OBJECTIVES
Identify aspects of
culture
Demonstrate a holistic
understanding of
culture and society
 THE ASPECTS OR
CHARACTERISTICS OF CULTURE
Dynamic, Flexible, and Adaptive
Shared Contested and Challenge
Learned and Acquired
 Patterned Social Interactions
Transmitted through Enculturation;
Culture Requires Language and
other forms of Communication.
Dynamic, Flexible, and Adaptive

Culture has life and is ever

changing
Culture changes depending on
the physical and environmental
situation and state.
Culture creates and recreates
itself to remain relevant
 Shared and Contested and
Challenge
It can be called culture if it is
practice and recognize by a large
number of people
Despite the shared culture, it
doesn’t mean that it is all the way
accepted, there are varying views of
about culture and how it should be
practiced
Shared, Contested and Challenge

It can be subjected to

debate and analysis as to
it’s truthfulness
It may be challenge by
the changing times
(Modernization, Globalization)
 Learned and Acquired

Culture is not instinctive. It is

not transmitted genetically. It
is acquired by each person
through the senses and from
experience. Each individual
must learn from himself. No
one is born equipped with a
particular language, or
knowledge of religious beliefs.
 Patterned Social Interactions

Culture operates or works in a

way that it dictates and defines
human behaviors
Although patterned and
repetitive, we can always choose
to follow or disobey parts of our
culture
Transmitted through Enculturation

Culture is transmitted to and

among members of a social
group. It is usually passed to the
younger generations or new
members of the society
In can be passed from one
individual to another or from
society to another
Culture Requires Language and
other forms of Communication.

To learn and transmit

culture we need
language as medium
to communicate with
other