Culture

1. 1. Culture refers to the attitudes,values,customs,and behavior patterns that
characterize a social group.
2. Culture is defined as the set of learned behaviors, beliefs, attitude, values and
ideals that are characteristics of a particular society or population.
3. Culture is learned through first essential characteristics of culture, can be learned
indirectly through observation and imitation, experience, through watching and
reading , also taught by parents.
4. Culture is shared by a group of people of the same community with the same
values, beliefs, and traditions, also by their literature,their language and
mannerisms.
5. Culture is cumulative by knowledge being stored and passed on from one
generation to the next while knowledge is being added to the existing. The
achievement of the present and past and make provision for the future
achievement of man . They are added up as needed.
6. Culture changes by certain traditions or rituals are eliminated, language and
mannerisms of people change , migration and globalization lead to a mixing of
cultures.
7. Culture is dynamic, the character of culture that stems from its cumulative quality.
No culture is ever in a permanent state. New ideas are added and old ones are
modified and discarded . The spread of traits from individual and from one group
to another which is termed as diffusion.
8. Culture is ideational through assigning meanings to the environment and
experiences by symbolizing them.
9. Culture is diverse by having a system that has several mutually interdependent
parts. Also, it has a system that has several mutually interdependent parts.
10.Culture provides a range of permissible behavior patterns through your husband,
wife, as a parent , as a child , etc.
Tracie Newham
Education