Types of Culture
1According to Dynamism
- Static culture: same culture/cultural patterns are transmitted from generation to generation, as it was, in its original quality.
- Dynamic culture: culture/cultural patterns continue to change as they are passed on from one generation to another.
- According to Stability
- Stable Culture- the cultural patterns are satisfying to the group and tend to remain stable.
- Unstable culture- many people in the group are not satisfied the way things are being done.
- According to form or component
- Material Culture: It refers to the made, fashioned or transformed aspects of culture, those things that can be seen or touched; e.g. temples, bridges, furniture etc.
- Non-Material Culture: It includes symbols from word to musical notation- as well as ideas that shape and inform the lives of human in relation to one another and the social system in which they participate. It cannot be directly seen or touched; e.g. values, folkways, ways of thinking and feeling etc.