1.

Language
- a wide variety of verbal and nonverbal patterns and
behaviors, including social customs about who speaks to
whom—both how and when

2. Beliefs
- Example: proper remedies to cure illness
- Alternative health care: spiritualists, herbalists,
shamans, acupuncturists or homeopaths
Components of Culture

3. Relationship
- refers to the beliefs, attitudes, values and behaviors
within the family. The topic of family relationships
include family structure, roles, dynamics and
expectations

4. Roles
- refers to what is considered appropriate and
acceptable behavior for men and women

5. Religion
- a specific set of beliefs and practices regarding the
spiritual realm beyond the visible world, including belief
in the existence of a single being, or group of beings,
who created and govern the world. Eg: ritual and prayer
 Characteristics of Culture

• is not an inborn tendency, not inherited biologically, but learnt socially

1. Culture is Learnt by man

• does not exist in isolation / individual phenomenon

2. Cultural is Social • originates and develops through social interaction & shared by the
members of the society

• customs, tradition, beliefs, ideas, values, morals, etc. are shared by

3. Culture is Shared people of a group or society
• not something that an individual alone can possess

• capable of being transmitted from one generation to the next, through

4. Culture is Transmissive language

• a continuous process
5. Culture is Continuous and • is growing completely which includes in itself, the achievements of the
Cumulative past and present and makes provision for the future achievements of
mankind

6. Culture is Consistent and • its development has revealed tendency to be consistent

Interconnected • At the same time, different parts of culture are interconnected

• it is not altogether static, It is subject to slow but constant change

7. Culture is Dynamic and • adaptive, responsive to the changing conditions of the physical world,
Adaptive also intervenes in the natural environment and helps man in his process
of adjustment

• provides proper opportunities, and prescribes means for the

8. Culture is Gratifying satisfaction of our needs and desires
• determines and guides the varied activities of man

9. Culture varies from • has a culture of its own and differs from society to society
Society to Society

• implies the social meaning of physical objectives and physiological acts

10. Culture is Super Organic • The social meaning may be independent of physiological and physical
and Ideational properties and characteristics. eg: the social meaning of a national flag
is not just a piece of colored cloth, but it represents a nation