Characteristics of Culture

Culture is transmitted.

It is transmitted orally and by writing, as well as consciously or unconsciously fromone generation to another or within the same generation in an endless number of ways. Mass communication plays an important role in transmitting culture wherein it involves also the disciplining of the child's impulses toward changes or developmentof attitudes which are essential in one's social life.

By means of conditioning,imitation,suggestion, identification, reward and punishment and also formal instructions, children pay attention to things going on aroud them. With these different ways of transmittion of culture they easily modify their own behavior when told to do so. Also, these increase knowledge and growing awareness ofwhat the culture considers right or wrong. Thus, though time had passed by, transmission on culture from generation to generation will not there easily.

Culture is shared.

The transmission of culture will continue its flow in the interacting with one another and result to the emerge out of the social life of the people. Common experiences unify people. Shared cultures makes the society's interaction more meaningful and enable them to predict each others behavior.

Culture is patterned and integrated.

Culture is integrated not simply by its dominant economic activities and social patterns but also by enduring themes, values, configurations and world views.Culture is well-integrated when there is conformity between the actual behavior and the actual norms.

What is culture?

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"Sociologist define culture as the values, beliefs, behavior, and material objects that together form a people's way of life."

Culture is distinguish between thoughts, the way we think and how we think. It is how we act and react. It also shape the things we do ang form our own personality. Culture also help us to show what we own and how we'll be able to distinguished because of that.

Culture serves as bridge to connect the past and the future. Although we are all the same creatures biologically, there's still barriers that makes us different. It is the culture of one's place.

People differs in their own cultures depending on the place where they spend their life time. But it is the freedom to view our own way of life, our living and its wonders.

People differs in their own cultures depending on the place where they spend their life time. But it is the freedom to view our own way of life, our living and its wonders.

Those people who are good in fine arts,classical music, theater,grapic arts, sculpture, painting and sports are also culture. The livelihood and how the people meet their needs, the values customs,norms, ideas,knowledge, beliefs, human expectations and achievements also explains the culture of a certain palce.

The society's economy, politics, language, religion, and education are also part of their cultures.

This process involves conscious learnings and interaction with each others. and it really affect human behavior. As the child grows up, he sees the world through the particular looking glass of his culture.