Characteristics of Culture

always a product of human behavior always transmitted through learning always gratifies human needs always tends toward integrating a society

Culture is learned and acquired

not instinctive acquired through

the senses and from experience

habits, skills, vakues and knowledge

may be acquired through imitation,conditioning,suggestion,formal or informal instruction, or mass media

follows system of reward and punishment

Culture is shared and transmitted

transmission through ideas

passed on to generations using language and other symbolic means of com.

Culture is social

it's a group product it's social due to

man's natural tendency to socialize

Culture is ideational

formation of ideas and use of the same to assign meanings to his environment and experiences

Culture gratifies human needs

culture's provision to satisfy biological and sociological needs of people i.e. food, clothing, shelter, protection, love, security, sex, etc.

Culture is adaptive

dynamism of culture

adaptiveness of customs

Culture tends toward integration

elements or traits that make up culture are (customs) mostly adjusted to or consistent with one another

Culture is commulative

accumulation of certain features of culture over time