Characteristics of culture Flashcards
constantly changing; it goes thru revision with each generation. It changes to adapt to the shifting needs of a society. The only permanent thing in this world is change-so do culture.
Dynamic
For example, our ancestors used candles and oil lamp to brighten their dark nights but now, we already have electricity.
Dynamic
to adapt to different circumstances. It changes depending on the need of a particular period.
Flexible
For example, the earliest form of planting crops is usually associated with the use of hands and stick to dig up holes but as time passed by people used animals and heavy machineries to cultivate the soils and lessen the usage of manpower, this led in the production of more crops.
Flexible
through the use of culture. People use culture to adjust to changes in to the natural environment and manmade world. People built houses, wore clothes and invented weapons to cope to the different elements around them.
Adaptive
able to act in socially appropriate ways as well as predict how others will act because people interact with each other, they learn their culture by observing, listening and talking with other people.
Shared
People in society share a common behaviors and ways of thinking. Because people can communicate they can exchange ideas with their neighbors.
Shared
Because people have different ways of living and ways of thinking they disagree with each other. As a result they argue, fight and prove to each other that what they believe is superior to what other people believe. What seems to be dominant in a certain period becomes known and what seems to be less becomes forgotten.
Contested
Each one of us starts with no notion what is supposed to be right and wrong, but as we grow older our society molds our personality and we learns what should be proper or not through enculturation.
Learned
process by which a child learns his or her culture.
Enculturation
Most of the time, culture is taught directly when our parents train us. Children imitate actions and modify behaviors with what they observed to be right and wrong.
Learned
the learned behavior of people is _______. Each person’s behavior often depends upon some particular behavior of someone else. The point is that, as a general rule, behaviors are somewhat integrated or organized with related behaviors of other persons.
Patterned
known as holism, or the various parts of a culture being interconnected. All aspects of a culture are related to one another and to truly understand a culture, one must learn about all of its parts, not only a few.
Integrated
handed down from one generation to another. The acquired learning of culture is passed on to succeeding generations primarily through language.
Transmitted
The survival of society requires that the people provide means by which their culture can be learned and transmitted from one generation to another.
Transmitted
