Culture Lecture

1. CULTURE

2. ULTURE is COMPLEX
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It includes knowledge, belief, art,
morals, law, customs, and any other
capabilities and habits acquired by
man as a member of society (taylor)

3. ulture is....
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learned from others while growing up in a particular
human society or groupwidely shared by the members of
that society or groupresponsible for most differences in
ways of thinking and behaving that exist between human
societies or groupsso essential in completing the
psychological and social development of individuals that
a person who did not learn culture would not be
considered normal by other people

4. culture is learned, shared, largely
responsible for differences between
human groups, and necessary to make
individuals into complete persons.

5. The culture of a group consists of
shared, socially learned knowledge
and patterns of behavior.

6. Shared...
Culture is a collective phenomenon—it is shared.
People who were brought up in or are familiar with
a given culture are mostly able to communicate
with and interact with one another without serious
misunderstandings and without needing to explain
what their behavior means.

7. ...Socially Learned...
Individuals acquire their culture in the process of
growing up in a society or some other kind of
group. The process by which infants and children
learn the culture of those around them is called
socialization, or enculturation. Learning one’s
culture, of course, happens as a normal part of
childhood. To say that culture is learned from
others seems obvious, but it has several
important implications that are not completely
intuitive.

8. ...Knowledge..
The members of a culture share enough
knowledge that they behave in ways that are
meaningful and acceptable to others so that they
avoid frequent misunderstandings and usually do
not need to explain what they are doing.The
knowledge guides behavior such that the people
can survive, reproduce, and transmit their culture.

9. …and Patterns of Behavior
The behavior of individuals varies for several reasons. First, individuals
have different social identities: males and females, old and young, rich
and poor, family X and family Y, and so forth. Actions appropriate for
people with one identity may not be appropriate for others. Second, the
behavior of individuals varies with context and situation: a woman acts
differently depending on whether she is interacting with her husband,
child, priest, or employee. Third, each human individual is in some ways
a unique human individual: even when brought up in the same society,
we all differ in our emotional responses, appetites, interpretations of
events, reactions to stimuli, and so forth.Finally, cultural standards for
and expectations of behavior are often ambiguous. For these and other
reasons, it is a mistake to think of behavior as uniform within the same
culture.

10. Origin(s) of Culture
One way to investigate the origin of culture is to
look at the anatomy needed to produce speech.
Language is almost entirely symbolic so
estimating when the ability to speak language
evolved is one indication of when humanity
became dependent on culture. Indeed, culture as
we know it could not exist without
language.humanity had the capacity for culture by
around 80,000 years ago.

11. Culture and Human Life
culture is absolutely essential to human life as it is
usually lived—in association with other people, or
in social groups. Those who study animal
behavior know that living in social groups does
not require culture.

12. Culture is necessary for human
existence in at least three specific ways:
1. Culture provides the knowledge by which we
adapt to our natural environment by harnessing
resources and solving other problems of living in a
particular place.

13. ●
. Culture is the basis for human social
life.

14. 3. Culture affects our views of reality. It provides
the mental concepts by which people perceive,
interpret, analyze, and explain events in the world
around them.

15. End of discussion
Discussant:REYMUND B. FLORES, M.P.G.