elements of Culture
Transcript of elements of Culture
Anything and everything that makes up a person’s entire way of life is called culture.
Definition of Culture
When a culture organize its members into smaller
groups
Families
Friends
Religious group
Social classes etc
Social organization
• Language is a set of symbols used to assign and communicate meaning. It enables us to name or label the things in our world so we can think and communicate about them.
LANGUAGE
Art and literature
• They are the products of the human imagination.
• They help us pass on the culture’s basic beliefs.
• Examples: art, music, literature,
monotheism
Belief in one God
polytheism
Belief in more than one God
Major world religion
Islam
Hinduism Buddhism
democracy
• People have supreme power
republic
• People choose leaders to represent them
Dictatorship
• A ruler or group holds power by force
Forms of government
People forms government to provide for their common needs.
• Government control answers to economic questions.
• Basic economic questions are answered by buying/selling goods and services.
• People produce most of what they need to survive.
traditional market
Command
Economic system