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Society and Culture

Culture:

• Def: all the accepted and patterned ways of behavior of a given people.
• Cultures tend to be integrated wholes.
  • On the most basic level, a culture includes techniques
    found useful for survival.
    • It is, therefore, shaped by the environment.
    • But it also means techniques useful for surviving in the society.
      • Individualist Eskimo
      • Sedentary nomad
  • On a higher level, they provide a means of group identification.
    • Culture facilitates group interaction.
      • language
      • "How to behave" questions.
• Culture tends to provide a "view of Life" or to answer certain basic questions.
• Culture distinguishes one Society from another.

Society:

• Def: Society is a group of people sharing a common culture.
• The society is a group of people; the culture is the way they behave.
• Society and culture distinguish those who are members of a group from those who are not members of the group.
• Every society has a word for "insider" and "outsider.
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