DEFINING CULTURE AND SOCIETY FROM THE

PERSPECTIVE OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND

SOCIOLOGY
Understanding Culture, Society and Politics 11
NORMAN C. LINGAHAN, LPT, MA.Ed
CAROLINA NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
GUIDE QUESTIONS?
1.How can you describe your
society?
2.What are the types of society?
3.How can we protect the
society where we lived in?
SOCIETY
Describes a group of
people who share a
common territory and
culture
CULTURE
Refers to that complex whole
which encompasses beliefs,
practices, values, attitudes, laws,
norms, artifacts, symbols,
knowledge and everything that a
person learns and shares as a
member of society.
 Hence…..
Culture represents the beliefs,
practices and artifacts of a
group, while society represents
the social structures and
organization of the people who
share those beliefs and
practices.
THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF
SOCIETY
 HUNTING AND GATHERING SOCIETY
Considered as the earliest form of
society
Small and generally with less than 50
members and nomadic.
Members primarily survive by hunting,
trapping, fishing , and gathering edible
plants.
The family determines the
distribution of food and how to
socialize children.
There is equality in terms of
distribution of labor among men and
women.
Men are responsible for hunting
Women are responsible for
gathering
 PASTORAL SOCIETIES
This type of society rely on
the products obtained
through domestication and
breeding of animals for
transportation and food.
They are common in the
areas where crops cannot
be supported and only
have to move when the
land in which the animals
grace is no longer usable.
 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY
This society rely on the cultivation
of fruits, vegetables and plants in
order to survive.
They often force to relocate when
the resources of the land depleted
or the water supplies decrease.
 AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY
They rely on the use of technology in
order to cultivate crops in large areas
including wheat, rice and corn.
Productivity increases, and as long as
there is plenty of food, people do not
have to move.
 INDUSRIAL SOCIETY
They uses advanced sources of
energy to run large machineries
which lead to industrialization.
Innovations in transportation led
people to travel, work in factories or
even live in the cities.
Occupational specialization
became even more
pronounced, and the person’s
vocation became more of an
identifier than his or her family
ties, as was common in non
industrial societies.
 POST- INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY
The economy is based on services and
technology, not on production.
The economy is dependent on tangible
goods, people must pursue greater
education, and the communications
technology allows work to be performed
in a variety of locations.
STUDENT ACTIVITY
 PERFORMANCE TASK NO. 01 CRITERIA

RELATIONSHIP OF PERFORMANCE TO
TOPIC 25 POINTS
THE GROUP MEMBERS CONTRIBUTE TO THE
TEAM 25 POINTS
CREATIVITY 20 POINTS
WELL-EXPLAINED – 30 POINTS