[trapzy]

How are culture and society connected to each other

[Clough]

Hi, trapzy!

Are you asking the question as it might concern a particular culture as well as society, please?

Thanks!

[trapzy]

No I'm asking from a anthroplogical point of view in which ways are culture and society connected to each other

[Clough]

Just to get you thinking a bit here...

Let's say, that we use the example of cavemen (or, maybe cavepeople?) during the time that they lived. It also might be a group of early, primitive people living apart from and not influenced by other social, organized groups during that same time.

Certainly, from the evidence that we have, their ways of hunting, fishing, gardening, raising of children to be able to function in the society of that time and how things within their family unit were also organized, etc. were things that were very departmentalized with specializations within the various departments and worked out in such a way for their society to be able to live successfully in a sociological manner as well as organized structure for them to be able to survive.

During that time, what they did as a society and as a culture were very similar to each other. So much so, that to put a distinction between the two would be difficult to do. In order for them to survive as a society as well as a culture, each individual as well as specialized organized groups of people, did the activities and functions that they needed to do as well as what they were expected to do.

Society and culture, during these modern times, is of course much different than that which I've described above. We have thousands of different societies, each with cultures within them that might be unique within that society.

Some of the main ways that they're connected, is that, because of the convenience of and being able to use modern ways of communication, the advancement in both speed and efficiency in how we are able to travel quickly from one place to another and the natural desire of humans to want to learn more and gather things that seem to be desirable to us, the ability to partake in trading with each other, we are more likely to be able to be aware of and know about each other more so than ever before.

For instance, both men, women and children can be and are influenced by what their counterparts from various societies are doing within the cultures of those other societies. Even when two societies might be similar in social and economic organization, because of maybe having different climates and the differences in the natural resources that are available to manufacture things, there is more so now, a blending of what each society has with the cultures of what another society might have.

Discussion, please?