Characteristics of Culture

• learning within your own group. Man’s ability to think and to adapt to his environment enabled him to learn new things from his parents, friends, neighbors and social institutions based on the meanings of symbols humans attach with particular objects and actions.

  1.          Culture is learned and acquired through socialization and enculturation.
• changes everytime. adjust based on the trend. Culture keeps on changing depending on how an

  individual or a generation make certain adjustments in their environment based on their needs and what suits their tastes.  With this new development, the next generation may inherit and decide to preserve, revise, or alter it with another trait. 

  Culture is dynamic, adaptive, and flexible.
• • typical (elders to youngers)
  • down to up (youngers to elders)

  The cultural ways are learned by persons from other persons. Many of them are handed down by one’s elders, by parents, teachers, and others (of a somewhat older generation). Other cultural behaviors are “handed up” to elders

  Culture is shared and transmitted
• combining culture of one to another to form a new idea/identity.   Culture is meaningfully interwoven to make acomplex whole. It is organized from the simplest behavioral trait to the most complex cultural trait.


  Culture is integrated and patterned social interactions.
• we are able to know the other's culture by interaction with them.  It is a by-product of human interaction. Individual experiences which were acquired

  and shared become part of a subculture or a culture trait of a particular group.

  Culture is social
• cultures that are being added (nadadagdagan) From generation to generation, there are things that are transmitted, acquired or added in a culture. 


  Culture is cumulative
• language is the medium used to share and transmit culture. It is impossible for a society to thrive without language because this is the means by which ideas, thoughts, and feelings are carried out from one person to another across distance and time. 


  Culture requires language and communication