Characteristics of culture (slideshare).ppt
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Culture is learned through human experience, transmitted across generations through social learning, and helps integrate societies by satisfying basic human needs. It is shared through language and symbols, develops over time to adapt to new environments and experiences, and brings together different customs and traditions to form a cohesive whole. Culture gratifies biological and social needs for food, shelter, protection, and social connection.
Characteristics of culture (slideshare).ppt
- 1. Characteristics of Culture always a product of human behavior always transmitted through learning always gratifies human needs always tends toward integrating a society
- 2. Culture is learned and acquired not instinctive acquired through the senses and from experience habits, skills, vakues and knowledge
- 3. may be acquired through imitation,conditioning,suggestion,formal or informal instruction, or mass media follows system of reward and punishment
- 4. Culture is shared and transmitted transmission through ideas passed on to generations using language and other symbolic means of com.
- 5. Culture is social it's a group product it's social due to man's natural tendency to socialize
- 6. Culture is ideational formation of ideas and use of the same to assign meanings to his environment and experiences
- 7. 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.
- 8. Culture is adaptive dynamism of culture adaptiveness of customs
- 9. Culture tends toward integration elements or traits that make up culture are (customs) mostly adjusted to or consistent with one another
- 10. Culture is commulative accumulation of certain features of culture over time