WorksheetsCharacteristics of Culture
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 6mins
‘Culture’ comes from the Latin word cultura which is derive from colere. What does colere mean?
‘to cultivate’
'to captivate'
'to combat'
'to comply'
This refers to everything that a person learns as a member of a society.
Beliefs
Taboos
Culture
Norms
What is culture according to the anthropologists?
Culture is everything that a person learns as a member of a society.
The practice of comparing other cultural practices with those of one’s own and automatically finding those other cultural practices to be inferior.
Preference for the foreign. Characterized by strong belief that one’s own products, styles,or ideas are inferior to those which originate elsewhere.
Culture are set of learned behaviors, beliefs, attitudes, values and ideals that are characteristic of a particular society or population.
This characteristics of culture includes the material and non material culture.
Culture is shared
Culture is everything
Culture is learned
Culture affects biology
This characteristics of culture tells us that culture is not permanent. It changes through time.
Culture is adaptive
Culture is dynamic
Culture is maladaptive
Culture is shared
Culture can also cause problems for the people who subscribe to it. These problems arise when the environment has changed and culture has remained the same.
Culture is shared
Culture is everything
Culture is adaptive
Culture is maladaptive
Culture is not biological; we do not inherit it. Much of learning culture is unconscious. We got it from people whom we encounter in our life.
Culture is everything
Culture is shared
Culture is learned
Culture is dynamic
Humans are born into cultures that have values on beauty and body. As such, they alter their bodies to fit into the physiological norms dictated by culture.
Culture affects biology
Culture is adaptive
Culture is learned
Culture is maladaptive
Culture is a tool for survival that humans use in response to the pressures of their environment.
Culture is adaptive
Culture is learned
Culture is shared
Culture is everything
For a thought or action to be considered cultural, it must be commonly practiced by some population or group of individuals.
Culture is everything
Culture is learned
Culture is dynamic
Culture is shared
This characteristics of culture includes the material and non material culture.
Culture is shared
Culture is everything
Culture is learned
Culture affects biology
