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Components of Culture: Reported By: Kristavilla C. Olaviano

This document outlines the key components of culture. It divides culture into material culture, non-material culture, and cognitive culture. Material culture includes physical artifacts and technologies. Non-material culture consists of social norms like folkways, mores, and laws, as well as beliefs and values. Cognitive culture includes language and the beliefs that help individuals understand their social situation.

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Components of Culture: Reported By: Kristavilla C. Olaviano

This document outlines the key components of culture. It divides culture into material culture, non-material culture, and cognitive culture. Material culture includes physical artifacts and technologies. Non-material culture consists of social norms like folkways, mores, and laws, as well as beliefs and values. Cognitive culture includes language and the beliefs that help individuals understand their social situation.

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Components of Culture

Reported by: Kristavilla C. Olaviano


Components
of Culture

Material Non-Material Cognitive


Language
Culture Culture Culture

Technologies Social Norms Beliefs Values

Folkways

Mores

Laws
Material Culture

 It refers to all the physical, tangible and concrete


objects produced by people, and determines the
physical options and opportunities of the society.
 includes physical artifacts (e.g., adornments, buildings,
and weapons) and the ways that societies produce and
use them, the corresponding skill for their effective use
and the beliefs and values attached to them.
Technologies

 Refers to the application of techniques and norms


applied on material culture , utilizing raw materials to
produce food, tools, shelter, clothing, means of
transportation, treatment of the sick and weapons.
 It is based on scientific knowledge and is transmitted
formally in schools, research institutes or shops and
factories.
Non-Material Culture

 Culture of any society consists of a complex set of


behavior patterns and artifacts.
 The basic structure of culture is universal.
Social Norms

 Norm is an idea in the minds of the members of a group


put into a statement specifying what members of the
group should do, ought to do or are expected to do
under certain circumstances. (Homans 1950:123)
 Norms are prescriptions or standard behavior expected
to be followed.
Folkways

 Folkways are commonly known as the customs,


traditions, and conventions of a society.
Mores

 Mores are special folkways which are important to the


welfare of the people and their cherished values.
 They are based on ethical and moral values which are
associated to strong feelings of right and wrong.
Laws

 Laws are formalized norms, enacted by people who are


vested with governmental power and enforced by
political and legal authorities designated by the
government.
Beliefs

 Beliefs embody people’s perception of reality and


include the primitive ideas of the universe as well as the
scientist’s empirical view of the world.
 They result from one’s experiences about the physical,
biological, and social world in which the individual lives.
Values

 Values are he basis of our judgment, of what we consider good, desirable,


ugly and wrong.
 Values are socially accepted and shared ideas about what is right.
Cognitive Culture

 Cognitive culture are those though which an individual


know how to cope with an existing social situation.
Language

 Language refers to the “systematized usage of speech


and hearing to convey, communicate, or express
feelings and ideas” (Eshleman and Cashion 1983:83)

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