No correspondence between the two when one factors out historical cultural contact. Cultural Anthropology, the second major branch of anthropology, studies the world's cultures . Now, as far as anthropology goes, we are going to spend the rest of this course on cultural anthropology proper, so let me say just a little bit about archeology now. Although they can do a phenomenal job at reconstructing the whole from these things, their idea of culture tends to place a heavy emphasis on the things of a culture . And this is where most anthropological ideas of culture take off from.
Society is, from a certain perspective, simply an organized group of individuals.
Culture, on the other hand, is an organized group of ideas and conditioned emotional responses shared by the members of a society. In practice, the two are always linked, since without culture society is merely a population, an aggregate of beings dispersed in a geographic space. The organization of all societies depends upon culture, the ideological side of the coin. Society, people, or rather a succession of people, generations, provides whatever continuity a culture may have. It is at the level of culture that such phenomenon as personal identity, stereotypes, the identity of groups, gender, ethnicity, race, occupation, and all of what we think of as society and what the social scientist calls social structure takes shape.