Society and Culture Fundamental Concepts

What is the Fundamental Concept of Persons?

Every person is a unique individual who develops in a social and environmental setting in which he or she is influenced by, and interacts with, other persons and groups. Communication, the sharing of values and beliefs, and cooperation are major interactions. The identity achieved by each individual is the result of interactions at the micro, meso and macro levels of society.

What is the Fundamental concept of Society?

Society is made up of people, groups, networks, institutions, organisations and systems. These aspects of society may include local, national, regional and international patterns of relationships and organisations. People belong to informal and formal groups, and within and between these groups there are patterns of interactions that contribute to unique cultures.

What is the fundamental concept of Culture?

Culture refers to the shared knowledge, attitudes and behaviours that give each society its coherence, identity and distinctive ways of life. Culture is demonstrate by the beliefs, customs, values, norms, rules, laws, governance, arts technologies and artefacts that people generate and use as they interpret meaning from their world and solve present and future problems. Culture is dynamic and undergoes change, and is therefore not static.

What is the fundamental concept of Time?

Every person, society, culture and environment is located in a period of time and is changing with time. Time can be examined as past, present and future. Our perceptions of time are draw from past events and these influence our ideas about the present. These perceptions need not, however, determine possible ideas of a future. The concept of time is best studied in a context - last century, this century and pre- and post- events or as a particular decade. Time is studied in relation to continuity and change.