Culture & Community

Question 1

What are the types of culture?

Answer 1

Material & Non-Material Culture

Question 1

What is Culture?

Answer 1

The shared Beliefs, Norms (Rules), Values, and material goods that a group of people has in common.

It shapes our understanding of good and evil, sets social rules, and provides meaning to our lives. Culture also informs safe and unsafe plants and shapes our surroundings.

Question 2

What is ‘Material Culture’?

Answer 2

Tangible goods like art, architecture, and technology, influencing society’s perception of reality. Symbols, humans’ greatest achievements, are applied to the physical world through material culture and technology, such as the automobile.

Question 3

What is ‘Non-Material Culture’?

Answer 3

Mental blueprints (Ideas & beliefs) that shape how a group acts and interacts with one another.

• It includes collective assumptions, languages, beliefs, values, norms, and attitudes.

Question 4

What changed & challenged Material & Non-Material Culture?

Answer 4

• New Technologies
• Globalisation

Question 5

What is a Community?

Answer 5

A group of people living in the same place, like a city, village, or neighborhood, or who feel a common identity. Communities have strong social ties, shared beliefs and rules, and usually care for each other.

Question 6

Understanding the Nature of Communities

Answer 6

• A community is a construct/model, and cannot be seen, touched, or experienced.
• It is not just the people in it; it existed before all current residents were born and will likely continue to exist even after all members have left.
• A community may have temporarily moved members who may wish to return, but not all do.
• A community may not have a physical location but is defined by a group of people with a common interest.

Question 7

What are the Dimensions of Community? (5)

Answer 7

• Technological
• Economic
• Institutional (social)
• Aesthetic-value
• Belief-conceptual