Basic elements of culture

Anything and everything that makes up a person’s entire way of life is called culture.

Definition of Culture

Elements of culture:

When a culture organize its members into smaller

groups

Families

Friends

Religious group

Social classes etc

Social organization

family

Nuclear family

Husband, wife, children

Extended family

Several generation in

one household

CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS

Rules of Behavior are enforced ideas of right and wrong.

• 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