CULTURE

CULTURE REVIEW

1. LARAIB KIRAN H1F18MSCT0020 UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL PUNJAB HFD

2. CULTURE

3. CONTENT CULTURE- MEANING AND ITS NATURE COMPONENTS OF CULTURE EVOLUTION OF CULTURE DIVERSITY AND UNIFORMITY OF CULTURE

4. CONTENT CULTURE ANS SOCIALIZATION TRANS CULTURAL SOCIETY INFLUENCE ON HEALTH AND DISEASE

5. INTRODUCTION Culture is derived from the English word “Kulthura” and Sanskrit word “Samskar” which denotes socail channel and intellectual excellence . Culture is a way of life.

6. DEFINITION EB TAYLOR Culture is a complex whole, which includes knowledge, beliefs, art, morals, customs and any other capabilities and habits acquired by the man as a member of society.

7. DEFINITION CC NORTH The instruments constituted by man to assist him in satisfying his wants .

8. NATURE OF CULTURE Culture is a learned behavior Culture is transmitted Culture is social Culture provides opportunities Culture is adaptive Culture is dynamic

9. NATURE OF CULTURE Every society has its own culture Culture is continuous and cumulative Culture is integrative

10. Types of Culture Material Culture Non material Culture

11. Functions of Culture It makes man as a human being . To regulate the conduct and prepares the human being for group life through the process of Socialization. It defines the meaning of situation. Provides solutions for difficult situations. Define values, attitudes and goals.

12. Functions of Culture Broaden the vision of individuals. Provide behavior patterns and relationship with others. Keep the individual behavior intact. Creates new needs and interests.

13. Components of Culture Components of culture are as follows- Symbols

14. Language A major symbolic system in use in all human societies is language. Language is essential to give members of society a sense of identity .

15. Values Values are general abstract moral principles defining what is right or wrong, good or bad, desirable or undesirable. In other words values often come in pairs of positive and negative terms. Values define general moral qualities of behavior expected from members of society such as honesty, patriotism or commitment to freedom.

16. Customs Customs are formed on the basis of habits . Customs are social habits which through repetition become the basis of an order of social behavior . According to MacIver custom is a group procedure that has gradually emerged without express enactment without any constituted authority to declare it, apply it, to safe guard it.

17. Customs

18. Laws  Laws are enacted by the state or center to have control over individual . According to Green law is more or less systematic body of generalized rules, balanced between the fiction of performance and fact of change governing specifically defined relationship and situations and employing force or the threat of force in defined and limited ways . Laws applies equally to all Laws are definite, clear and precise.

19. Evolution of Culture Evolution of specific culture is difficult to identify . But from the discoveries and inventions cultural development can be identified . But one thing is clear that culture is as old as man. Though the material aspects does not us about the culture but reveals the evolution of culture.

20. Diversity and uniformity of culture Culture is a set of behavior of a group. Therefore there are many culture as there are many groups. Culture of one group may differ completely or in certain aspects from other. These variations are known as cultural diversity.

21. Factors responsible for diverse culture are as follows- Geographical location Technological advancement  Religious belief Life style   Language

22. Uniformity of culture Uniformity of culture is meant by sharing the same type of cultural pattern by the different group of people. Uniformity of culture is far more complex than it seems. Uniformity is based on the belief of God’s superiority.

23. Culture and Socialization  Socialization is the process which shapes and defines our thoughts, feelings and also provides us with a model for our behavior . This process of socialization teaches the human being the cultural values and norms which provide the guidelines for our everyday life.

24. Agents of Socialization

25. Socialization Successful socialization can result in uniformity within society . Through the socialization personality develops.

26. Trans cultural society Cultural traits invented or discovered in one society to another that the way of spread directly (persons or group) or indirectly (radio, TV etc.,) to other societies . Transmission of culture which is movement of traits through time that is, from generation to generation .  Rome was trans is most countries of Europe . Now the united states in transmitting to others.

27. Factors influential in the process of trans cultural society Availability of transportation and communication Prestige of the transmitted cultural and its people Migration The need for some new element to meet a crisis Adaptability of the recipients of the new culture

28. Culture Influence on Health and Diseases It refers to the way of living which includes ideas, knowledge, attitude, practices, customs etc .

29. Food habit Andhra Pradesh

30. Practice of bad habits This cause for oral cancer

31. Culture Influence on Health and Diseases Getting up early in the morning and taking bath Superstitious beliefs