Relationship between culture and society

1. Relationship
Between Culture &
Society!
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2. What is Society?
 Society is the bigger, cooperating social
group with an organized sense of
relationship.
 It is the sum of interactions and people.
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3. What is Culture?
 Culture can be seen as tradition that creates cohesion
and continuity.
 It has a lot of different meanings
 It is the traits of a populations behavior, values and
beliefs.
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4. Difference b/w society and
culture
 Base
Culture is based off of historical precedence
society is an agreement on how each member
should behave.
 Scope
Society is the overall bigger picture
Culture is a part of society
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5. Difference b/w society and
culture
 Flexibility
Culture is changing constantly and exclusive
Society is more stable and inclusive
 Examples
Examples of culture are fashion, language,
traditional products, music, art and ideals.
Examples of society are villages, small towns
and big cities
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6. Relationship b/w culture and
society
 Present and continuous movement
 Society and culture are closely related and interlinked
 But they are “Not Interchangeable”
 culture plays a key role in the formation of a society
 Characteristics of relationship b/w culture and society
 Mutual existence
 Not Identical
 Essential Difference
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7. Mutual Existence
 Culture and society are co-existent.
 No culture could exist without society and
equally no society could exist without culture
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8. Not Identical
 Culture and society may have the some common
elements but the two are not the same; they are not
identical.
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9. Essential difference
 Society is composed of people
 Culture consists of knowledge, ideas, customs, traditions,
mores, beliefs, skills, institutions, organizations and
artifacts.
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10. Major cultures within a
society
 Universal Culture
 Subcultures
 Countercultures
 Material Culture
 Nonmaterial culture
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11. Cultural Universals
 Cultural traits shared by nearly all societies
 Arts and Leisure activities
 Basic Needs
 Clothing, cooking, Housing
 Communication and Education
 Family Courtship
 kin groups, marriage
 Government and Economy
 Calendar, division of labor, government, law, property rights, status
differentiation, trade
 Technology
 Medicine, tool making
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12. Subcultures
 Groups that share values, norms, and behaviors that
are not shared by the entire population.
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13. Countercultures
 Groups that rejects the major values, norms,
and behaviors that is practiced by larger
society.
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14. Major cultures within a
society
 Universal Culture
 Subcultures
 Countercultures
 Material Culture
 Nonmaterial culture
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15. Material Culture
 Material culture includes all the physical things that people
create and attach meaning to
 Clothing, food, tools, architecture etc.
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16. Nonmaterial culture
 Nonmaterial culture includes creations and abstract ideas
that are not embodied in physical objects.
 Any intangible products created and shared between the
members of a culture
 Social roles, rules, ethics, and beliefs are just some
examples.
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17. Cultural Sociology
 Specialized field of sociology that studies the culture and its
relationship with society
 culture in the sociological field can be defined as the ways
of thinking, the ways of acting, and the material objects that
together shape a people's way of life.
 Every cultural phenomena should be seen as a product of
social processes
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18. Major areas of research
 Theoretical constructs in sociology of culture
 Cultural change
 Culture theory
 Cultural deviation
 Evolution of culture
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19. Cultural deviance
 Deviance describes an action or behavior that
violates social norms of a society
 Formal deviance: crime, Legal action
 Informal deviance: Ethical violations, Taboo
 Positive deviance
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20. Evolution of culture
 Human culture changes
 Similar to Darwinian theory of evolution
 New traditions, customs and rituals are adopted by society
 The ability of societies to adapt is critical to long term
survival
 Flexible cultures survive
 Rigid societies vanish
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