ELEMENTS OF CULTURE

 Culture Exists anywhere humans exist

 There are no cultures that are exactly the same
 Culture is made up of elements that form people’s unique way of life

Classification of Culture
1. Tangible Heritage (Material) United National
immovable, movable, underwater Nation Commission for
Educational Culture and the
2. Non Tangible Heritage (Non-material) Scientific and Arts
oral traditions, performing arts, rituals, knowledge, skills Cultural
Organization
3. Natural Heritage (Material)
Cultural landscape, Physical, biological or geological formations

Material (Tangible/Physical) Non-Material (Intangible/Abstract)

1. Church 5. Artifacts 1. Knowledge 5. Laws

2. Museums 6. Relics 2. Social Norms 6. Values
3. Park 7. Fossils 3. Folkways 7. Beliefs
4. Monument 4. Mores 8. Pop Culture

TERMS TO REMEMBER

1. Norms - guides or models of correct behavior

2. Folkways - habitual ways and patterns of living
3. Mores - special norms that has something to do with morality
4. Laws - Formalized rules created by people
5. Values - Person’s judgement of what is right or wrong
6. Beliefs - individual’s perception of acceptable and reality
7. Ethnocentrism - tendency to judge other culture
8. Xenocentrism - rejection of one’s culture
9. Culture SHOCK - result of people not expecting cultural differences
10. Cultural Relativism - judging cultural practices in reference to our personal standard rather
through one’s culture
 7 MAIN ELEMENTS OF CULTURE

1. Social Organizations
 the formation of a stable structure of relations inside a group which provides a basis for
order and patterns relationships for new members
 Examples of social organizations in the Philippines are “Gawad Kalinga” and “DSWD”
2. Customs and traditions
 It is a practice, belief, or anything which lots of people do and have done from generation
to generation
 Examples of customs and traditions in the Philippines are fiestas and being polite to the
elderly by doing the “Mano po”
3. Religion
 the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God
or gods
 a particular system of faith and worship
4. Arts and Literature
 a visual object, experience, or written works consciously created through an expression
of skill or imagination
5. Language
 the method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of
words in a structured and conventional way
6. Forms of Government
 A government is the system by which a state or community is controlled
7. Economic system
 are the means by which countries and governments distribute resources and trade
goods and services