Society refers to the totality of social organizations, such as corporation, school, hospitals and religious groups that share a common habitat or a territorially defined place and depend on each other for survival.
While culture is the core concept in cultural anthropology and is an important concept in sociology.
Although the basic types of cultural behavior are universal, in most cases they differ in form from one culture to another.
Take endorsement of the body. In the United States, it has many ways of changing the natural appearance of the human body.
It is the most ancient and widely encountered form of permanent body alteration. The practice of tattooing is believed to have spread from the Middle East, through India, China and Japan to Pacific Island cultures as early as 2000 BC.
On a fairly simple level, some people do things such as comb their hair a certain way, pierce their ears, or polish their nails.
Others have parts of their body designed with tattoos, permanent mutilations of the body following patterns that are unique to our culture.
Tattoos in other cultures are quite different. As early as 300 BC Japanese and Chinese society tattooed their faced to protect themselves from evils forces.
Still others have cosmetic surgery such as nose jobs, hair transplant, and silicone injections to change their appearance.
In other cultures the ways in which the body is adorned are quite different. Some of the better known examples, such as the extended lower lip of the Ubangi women, or a bone inserted into a pierced nose, seem bizarre to us. But in every culture we find some form of adornment.
Among some South American Indian tribes boards are tied firmly against the head of an infant to change the shape of the skull.
The sense of ‘culture' as a ‘whole way of life’ has been most marked in twentieth century anthropology and sociology.
Different society with different culture
