DEFINING CULTURE

AND SOCIETY
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 PEOPLE CAN LEARN MANY THINGS,
TRANSMIT WHAT THEY HAVE LEARNED
TO THE NEXT GENERATION, AND EVEN
CONTROL THEIR ENVIRONMENT.
CULTURE AND SOCIETY ARE
INTERRELATED BUT ARE
NOT EXACTLY THE SAME.
A society has more comprehensive
sets of culture in the sense that the
group is culturally self-sufficient.
A culture is a complex whole which
encompasses beliefs, practices, values,
attitudes, laws, norms, artifacts, symbols,
knowledge, and everything that a person
learns and shares as a member of society.
(Tylor 1920 [1871]).
According to John Honigmann, an
anthropologist, there are three components that
go together that make up culture;
Ideas
Activities
Artifacts
IDEAS
Thoughts, beliefs, feelings, and rules
Examples:
 Aversion to incest, the Holy Spirit, and food-
sharing desires among relatives
 How to make things, abstract concepts such as
love, peace, and happiness and the Decalogue of
Conduct which also known as the Ten
Commandments.