COMPONENTS OF CULTURE

COMMUNICATION

*LANGUAGE

*SYMBOLS

*LANGUAGE

It forms the core of all culture.When people

share a language,they share a

condensed,very flexible set of symbols and

meanings.

*SYMBOLS

A symbol is anything that carries a particular meaning recognized by people who share culture.Symbol serve as the basis for everyday reality,vary within cultures,cross-culturally and change over time.

COGNITIVE

*IDEAS

*KNOWLEDGE

*BELIEFS

*VALUES

*ACCOUNTS

IDEAS/KNOWLEGDE/BELIEFS

Ideas-are mental representations(concepts,categories,metaphors)used to organize stimuli;they are the basic units of which knowledge is constructed and a world emerges.

Knowledge-the storehouse where we accumulate representations,information,facts,assumptions,etc.

Beliefs accepts a proposition,statement,description of facts,etc.as true.

VALUES/ACCOUNTS

Values-a culturally defined standaeds of desirability,goodness and beauty,which serve as broad guideliness for social living.

Accounts-how people use that common language to explain,justify,rationalize,excuse,or legitimize our behaviorto themselves and others.

BEHAVIORAL

*NORMS

*MORES

*LAWS

*FOLKWAYS

*RITUALS

are rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior if its members

MATERIALS

*TOOLS,MEDICINE

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*BOOKS

*TRANSPORTATIO

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*TECHNOLOGIES

MORES They are customary behavior of folkways which have

taken in a moralistic value.

This includes respect for authority, marriage and sex behavior patterns, religious rituals, and other basic codes of human behavior.

LAWS Constitute the most formal and important norms.

FOLKWAYS These are behavior patterns of society which are

organized and repetitive.

It involves the way we eat, how we dress, and other patterns we follow because they have been impressed upon us from the time we were born.

RITUALS These are highly scripted ceremonies or strips of

interaction that follow a specific sequence of actions.

They occur at predetermined times or triggered by specific cues.

*MATERIAL COMPONENT Refers to physical objects of culture such as machines,

equipment, tools, books, clothing, etc.

*THE ORGANIZATION OF CULTURE While the culture of a group is an integrated network

of folkways, mores, systems of beliefs, and institutional patterns, it can be broken into simple units or elements called cultural traits.

TRANSMISSION OF CULTURE 1. enculturation

It is the process of learning culture of one’s own group.

2. Acculturation

the process of learning some new traits from another culture.

3. Assimilation

it is the term used for a process in which an individual entirely loses any awareness of his/her previous group identity and takes on the culture and attitudes of another group.