Culture Culture can be defined as all the ways of
life including arts, beliefs and institutions
from the latin word “cultura” of a population that are passed down
stemming from colere, meaning “to from generation to generation.
cultivate”
refers to patterns of human activity Culture has been called “the way of life
and the symbolic structures that for an entire society”, it include codes of
give such activities significance and manners, food, clothes, language,
importance. religion, rituals, art, norms of behavior
totality of our shared language, such as law and morality, and systems of
traditions, knowledge, material belief.
objects and behavior. Culture is the embodiment of the way in
Culture in its broadest sense is cultivated which we think and do things.
behavior, that is the totality of a person’s It is also the things that we have
learned, accumulated experience which is inherited as members of society.
socially transmitted, or more briefly,
behavior through social learning. All the achievements of human beings as
members of social groups can be called
Culture is a way of life of a group of culture.
people—the behaviors, beliefs, values,
and symbols that they accept generally Art, music, literature, architecture,
without thinking about them, and that are sculpture, philosophy, religion, and
passed along by communication and science can be seen as aspects of
imitation from one generation to the culture. However, culture also includes
next. the customs, traditions, festivals, ways of
living and one’s outlook on various issues
Culture refers to the cumulative deposit of life.
of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values,
attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, Culture varies from place to place and
notion of time, roles, spatial relations, country to country. Its development is
concepts of the universe and material based on the historical process operating
objects and possessions acquired by a in a local, regional, or national context.
group of people in the course of For example, we differ in our ways of
generations through individual and group greeting others, our clothing, food habits,
striving. social and religious customs, and
practices. In other words, the people of
Culture is the sum of total of the learned any country are characterized by their
behavior of a group of people that are distinctive cultural traditions.
generally considered to be the tradition
of that people and are transmitted from Culture thus refers to a human-made
generation to generation. environment which includes all the
material and non-material products of
Culture is a collective programming of the group life that are transmitted from one
mind that distinguishes the members of generation to the next. There is a general
one group or category of people from agreement among social scientists that
another. culture consists of explicit and implicit
patterns of behavior acquired by human
beings. These may be transmitted
through symbols constituting the
distinctive achievements of human
groups, including their embodiment as
artifacts. Culture has two kinds, namely,
material, and non-material.
Kinds of Culture
Material Culture
refers to the concrete and tangible things
that man creates and uses. Material
culture consists of objects that are
related to the material aspect of our life
such as our dress, food, and household
goods.
Non-Material Culture
refers to non - material things or
intangible objects which the person uses,
follows, professes, or strives to conform.
It includes knowledge, laws, lifestyles,
techniques, ideas, customs, behaviors,
among others.
