Culture And Society Essay

It is important for people to understand that there’s a difference between culture and society. Many people confuse these terms, not understating completely what sets them apart. According to Kluckhohn, society is a group of people who interact more with each other than they do with individuals and culture is a group of people with distinctive ways of life (1949, 76). Culture and society are important to each other because culture is constructed by society. A person cannot understand one without the other because one constructs the other. How a person behaves and interacts with others is determined by culture and society that they were raised in. This is major factor to understand, we judge people by immediate situations and don’t take into consideration that person past. I also want to bring up another quote from Kluckhohn, “A culture is learned by individuals as the result of belonging to some particular group” (1949, 78). Most of the time we follow these trends and norms because we want to fit in or be part of something and culture gives us that opportunity. Even though, at times, a person may not agree to these regularities, they a conform because they

When people think of a cheerleader, they think of a female. For centuries, we have seen many females play the sport cheerleading and have associated cheerleading as being a women’s sport. As Anderson describes it, “peppy, smiling girl in a short skirt” (2005, 173). That is why society see’s male cheerleaders negatively, because when we think of males playing a sport, we think of sports in general that will make a male seem more masculine (football and basketball). So, when the masculine regulatory pattern isn’t matching up with what the male athlete behavior, then we see discrepancy that leads to negativity in a