Characteristics of Culture

 always a product of
human behavior
 always transmitted
through learning
 always gratifies human
needs
 always tends toward
integrating a society
 Culture is learned and acquired
 not instinctive
 acquired through
the senses and
from experience
 habits, skills,
vakues and
knowledge
 may be acquired
through
imitation,conditioni
ng,suggestion,for
mal or informal
instruction, or
mass media
 follows system of
reward and
punishment
Culture is shared and transmitted
 transmission
through ideas
 passed on to
generations using
language and
other symbolic
means of com.
 Culture is social
 it's a group product
 it's social due to
man's natural
tendency to
socialize
 Culture is ideational
 formation of ideas
and use of the
same to assign
meanings to his
environment and
experiences
 Culture gratifies human needs
 culture's provision
to satisfy biological
and sociological
needs of people
i.e. food, clothing,
shelter, protection,
love, security, sex,
etc.
 Culture is adaptive
 dynamism of
culture
 adaptiveness of
customs
Culture tends toward integration
 elements or traits
that make up
culture are
(customs) mostly
adjusted to or
consistent with
one another
 Culture is commulative
 accumulation of
certain features of
culture over time