CULTURE

BERNARD OKOAMPAH OTU

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 OVERVIEW OF CULTURE

• The culture of a people is generally seen as their total

way of life
• Prior to the above, some have seen culture as the
pursuit of literature, music, dancing, fetishism and
traditional ways of doing things
• Making this presumption more narrower of what
culture actually is
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• Often derogatory remarks such as ‘uncultured’ are

made
• Referring to someone who has acquired western
style of life or education
• Above presumption is untenable because culture
does not mean civilisation or acquiring certain level
of development
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• Culture of a people is their total way of life

• Which is categorised/ expressed in both tangible
(material) or intangible (nonmaterial) forms
• Tangible ; food, technology, visual arts and symbols,
architecture (house), medium of exchange (money)
• Intangible; language, morals, beliefs, folklores,
festivals, music, dance
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• Culture can therefore be referred as the

learned portions of human behaviour
developed as a result of his interaction with
the environment
• People are not born with any knowledge of
culture
• Is learnt by growing in a particular society
• Process of learning is termed ENCULTURATION
 CULTURE DEFINED

• Linton (1940) defines culture as the sum total of

knowledge, attitudes and habitual behaviour
patterns shared and transmitted by members of a
particular society
• Tyler (1946) A complex whole which include
knowledge, belief, art, morals, customs, cuisine and
other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a
member of society
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• A framework of beliefs, expressive symbols, and

values in terms of which individuals define their
feelings and make their judgement (Geertz 1957)
• Simply put culture is a way of life of a people
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