SOCIETY AND CULTURE

(WITH FAMILY PLANNING)

APPRECIATING CULTURE
 DEFINITION OF CULTURE
• The word "culture" derives from a French term, which in turn derives from the Latin
"colere," which means to tend to the earth and grow, or cultivation and nurture.
• Culture is the patterns of learned and shared behavior and beliefs of a particular social,
ethnic, or age group. It can also be described as the complex whole of collective human
beliefs with a structured stage of civilization that can be specific to a nation or time period.
Humans in turn use culture to adapt and transform the world they live in.

• the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.

• the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other
social group.
 CHARACTERISTICS OF CULTURE
Culture has five basic characteristics:

Culture is learned. 
Culture is shared.
Culture is based on symbols.
Culture is integrated. 
Culture is dynamic. 
 COMPONENTS OF CULTURE
Culture was defined earlier as the symbols, language, beliefs, values, and artifacts that are part of any society. As this definition
suggests, there are two basic components of culture: ideas and symbols on the one hand and artifacts (material objects) on the
other. 
Nonmaterial Culture
-values
-beliefs
-symbols
-language 
Material Culture
-includesall the society’s physical objects, such as its tools and technology, clothing, eating
utensils, and means of transportation.