Aspects Of Culture

Group 3
Aspects Of Culture
● Dynamic, Flexible and Adaptive
● Shared & Contested (given the reality of social differentiation
● Learned through socialization or enculturation( difference between socialization
and enculturation)
● Patterned Social Interactions
● Integrated and at times unstable
● Transmitted through socialization/enculturation
● Requires language and other forms of communication

E.N.D
A. Dynamic, Flexible & Adaptive
Dynamic Flexible Adaptive

Culture is continually
Cultures are constantly
changing through inventions, changing
improvement and borrowing
from other societies. For ● When a man needs
example all of these processes anything, he invents
have influenced the ways of getting what
development of various means he wants or adapts
of economic change. Many what other man have
different forms of money discovered to meet
function in a wider range of
his needs.
cultural environment.
C. Learned through socialization or enculturation
● Socialization ● Enculturation

-The process by which we -The process by which

learn and internalize the rules and
patterns of behavior that are
affected by culture(refers to
society)
-The actual process
youngsters learn and adopt the
ways and manners of their
culture(refers to culture)
-Product of the
socialization process
D. Patterned social interactions
Social Interaction

● Social Interaction is the process by which people act and react in

relation to others.
● Human being rely on social structure to make sense of everyday life

-Social structure guides human behavior rather than rigidly

determining it
E. Integrated and at times unstable
Culture is Integrated

In order to keep the culture functioning, all

aspects of the culture must be integrated. For
example the language must be able to
describe all the functions within the culture
in order for ideas and ideals to be transmitted
from one person to another.
F. Transmitted through socialization and enculturation
Culture building through socialization

● An organization’s ● Socialization is the

culture is process by which
transmitted to its members learn and
members through internalize the values
socialization and norms of an
processes organization’s culture
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