UNDERSTANDING

CULTURE AND
SOCIETY
 SOCIETY
Is a group of individuals sharing a
common cuture, geographical location,
and government. Human beings are
considered to be naturally inclined to
establish societies. Societies enable
individuals to acquire necessary survival
skills, maximize their potential, and
share resources.
 SOCIETY
E.B Tylor concept states that society
is a complex whole which
encompasses beliefs, practices,
values, attitudes, laws, norms,
symbols, knowledge, and everything
that a person learns and shares as a
member of society.
ELEMENTS OF SOCIETY

1. Social Solidarity- members of

community who lives together for
mutual benefits.
2. Shared Identity and culture-
serve as basis for their patterns of
action and behavior
3. Common Language
ELEMENTS OF SOCIETY
4. Large Population and ability to sustain
succeeding generations to members.
5. Difinite geographical area
6. Political, economic, and social
organization.
Hunting and Gathering
Horticultural an Pastoral
Societies
Agricultural Societies
Industrial Societies
CULTURE
Is one Important bases that define and
influence a society. Culture refers to the
set of beliefs, ideas, values, practices,
knowledge, history and shared
experiences, attitudes, a well as
material objects and possessions
accumulated over time and shared by
the members of the society.
2 PRIMARY CATEGORIES OF
CULTURE
1. Material Culture- composed of
the physical and tangible objects.
2. Non- Material Culture- consist
of the intangible properties and
elements of society that
influence the patterns of action
and behavior of it's members.
CULTURAL COMPONENTS

1.Symbols- refers to a thing that

convey meaning or represent an
idea.
2. Language- symbols that
enables members of society to
communicate verbally and non-
verbally.
CULTURAL COMPONENTS
3. Values- it is shared by ideas,
norms, and principles that's
provide members of society the
standards that pertain to what is
right and wrong.
4. Norms- it is shared by rules of
conduct that determine specific
behavior among society members.
CULTURAL COMPONENTS
4. Folkways- It may violated
without serious consequences.
5. Mores- norms with moral
connotations.
6. Law- norms that are legally
enacted and enforce.
Socialization- refers to the lifelong
process of forging identity through
social interaction.
Enculturation- refers to the process
by which an individual learns or
acquires the important aspects of his
or her society's culture.
Context- refers to a particular
circumstances of a certain culture and
is defined by location, weather, time
period, and other factors.
 SOCIETY AND
CULTURE
ACCORDING TO
THE THREE
DISCIPLINES
 ANTHROPOLOGY

considers culture as
the central focus of
it's decipline.
 TWO MAJOR VIEWS OF
ANTHROPOLOGY
1. Relativistic approach-
considers cultures as equal.
2. Ethnocentric approach- is
the beliefs that one native
culture is superior to other
cultures.
 SOCIOLOGY

relates culture with the

overall context of social
order. Sociology-relates
3 Sociological perspectives

1. Structural functionalism- operates

on the assumption that society is
stable and orderly system.
2. Conflict theory- assumes that
there is a constant power struggle
among the various social groups and
institutions within the society.
3 Sociological perspectives
3. Symbolic interactionism- views
individual and group behavior and
social interaction as defining
features of society.
 POLITICAL SCIENCE

also examines
culture as a vital
aspects of society.