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    Written Report Members: Bernales, Caira Joyce Subject: World Culture Date: September 03, 2019 Prof. MJ Marquez

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    Culture is defined as the means through which people convey their unique and shared characteristics. It exists wherever humans exist and no two cultures are exactly alike. There are four main elements of culture: symbols, language, norms, and values. Symbols represent something else, language allows communication, norms are shared expectations that guide behavior, and values involve judgments of what is good/bad. Culture plays a role in social order by allowing societies to function with agreed upon rules and norms. There are two categories of culture - real culture, which involves the actual values and norms followed, and ideal culture, which are the claimed but unachievable perfect values and norms. Cultural evolution refers to the development and progression of a culture over time through social

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    Culture is defined as the means through which people convey their unique and shared characteristics. It exists wherever humans exist and no two cultures are exactly alike. There are four main elements of culture: symbols, language, norms, and values. Symbols represent something else, language allows communication, norms are shared expectations that guide behavior, and values involve judgments of what is good/bad. Culture plays a role in social order by allowing societies to function with agreed upon rules and norms. There are two categories of culture - real culture, which involves the actual values and norms followed, and ideal culture, which are the claimed but unachievable perfect values and norms. Cultural evolution refers to the development and progression of a culture over time through social

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    Written Report

    Members: Bernales, Caira Joyce Date: September 03, 2019


    Brita, Ellaine
    Subject: World Culture Prof. MJ Marquez

    Culture

    CULTURE is a means through which people convey both their unique characteristics and common
    attributes with others.Culture exists anywhere humans exist, and no two cultures are exactly the same.

    ELEMENTS OF CULTURE
     Symbol
     Language
     Norms
     Values

    Symbols
     Symbol is anything that is used to stand for something else.
     People who share a culture often attach a specific meaning to an object, gesture, sound, or image.

    Language

     System of words and symbols used to communicate with other people. This includes full
    languages as we usually think of them, such as English, Spanish, French, Filipino etc.
     It also includes body language, slang, and common phrases that are unique to certain groups of
    people.

    Norms

     Cultural norms are the standards we live by.


     They are the shared expectations and rules that guide behavior of people within social groups.
    Cultural norms are learned and reinforced from parents, friends, teachers and others while
    growing up in a society.
     Norms are often divided into two types:
    o Formal Norms (Mores)- The standards of behavior considered the most important in
    any society.
    o Informal Norms (Folkways)- Standards of behavior that are considered less important
    but still influence how we behave. Table manners are a common example of informal
    norm.

    Values

     Values are another important element of culture and involve judgments of what is good or bad
    and desirable or undesirable.A culture’s values shape its norms.
     In some country like United States of America they value individualism. Americans are
    individualistic they encourage competition and emphasize personal achievement.
     But in some other country like Japan the central value is group harmony or collectivism. Japanese
    are collectivist, meaning the welfare of the group and group relationships are a primary value.

    Culture and Society

    Culture and society are intricately related. This is because through culture, people and groups define
    themselves, conform to society's shared values, and contribute to society.

    A culture consists of the “objects” of a society, whereas a society consists of the people who share a
    common culture. The cultural bond may be ethnic or racial, based on gender, or due to shared beliefs,
    values, and activities. The term society can also have a geographic meaning and refer to people who share
    a common culture in a particular location.

    Culture is important because it plays a significant and important role in the production of social order.
    The social order refers to the stability of society based on the collective agreement to rules and norms that
    allow us to cooperate, function as a society, and live together ideally in peace and harmony.

    Two Categories of Culture

    1. Real Culture includes the values and norms that are actually followed by a culture. It involves an
    adaptable value system that is used mostly as a set of guidelines for preferred behaviour. Real
    culture can be observed in our social life.
    2. Ideal Culture includes the values and norms that a culture claims to have. It involves an
    idealized, uncompromising value system that dictates perfect behaviour. Using ideal culture as a
    standard, you are either right or wrong. It is the goal of the society. However, it can never be
    achieved fully because some part of it remains out of practice.

    CULTURAL EVOLUTION

    Cultural evolution simply denotes cultural development and progression. Cultural evolution is an
    evolutionary theory of social change. It follows from the definition of culture as information capable of
    affecting individuals' behaviour that they acquire from other members of their species through teaching,
    imitation and other forms of social transmission.

    REFERENCES:
    https://study.com/academy/lesson/elements-of-culture-definitions-and-ideal-real-culture.html
    https://courses.lumenlearning.com/sociology/chapter/elements-of-culture/
    https://open.lib.umn.edu/sociology/chapter/3-2-the-elements-of-culture/
    https://study.com/academy/lesson/perceptions-of-culture-ideal-culture-and-real-culture-
    ethnocentrism-culture-relativism.html
    https://www.cliffsnotes.com/study-guides/sociology/culture-and-societies/culture-and-society-
    defined
    https://www.google.com/search?q=cultural+evolution&rlz=1C1RLNS_enPH671PH671&oq=cultural+ev
    olution&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.5711j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
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