WHAT IS CULTURE

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The word ‘Culture’ has been derived from Latin word ‘cult or cultus’ meaning cultivating or refining and worship.. E.B.Taylor ,an English anthropologist was the first to coin the term  culture in the eighteenth century.

CULTURE
  • Culture is a way of living life. .
  • E.B.Taylor defined culture "Culture may be defined as the way an individual and especially a group live, think, feel and organize themselves, celebrate and share life. In comprehensive manner culture may be defined as 
  • “ Culture refers to the cumulative deposit of knowledge ,experience,beliefs,morals,customs,attitude,meaning,hierarchies,religion,notions of time,roles,spatial relations,concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving.”
  • Culture thus refers to a human-made environment which includes all the material and non-material products of group life that are transmitted from one generation to the next.In point of view we can say,
                    Material (dress, food, and household goods)
  • Culture    
  •                       Non-Material. (Ideas, ideals, thoughts and belief)
  • In deeper sense it is culture that produces the kind of  literature, music, dance, sculpture, architecture and various other art forms as well as the many organizations and structures that make the functioning of the society smooth and well-ordered in manner of cultivated behaviour.Culture is the expression of our nature in our modes of living and thinking.
·            The self-restraintment in conduct, consideration for the feelings of others, for the rights of others, is the highest marks of culture.
·         ‘Culture’ refers to the inner being, a refinement of head and heart through knowledge ,skills ,attitudes,values and motives.
·         Culture is a unique qualify of man which separates him from the lower animals.

GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CULTURE

·         Culture is learned and acquired
·         Culture is shared by a group of people
·         Culture is cumulative
·         Culture changes
·         Culture is dynamic
·         Culture gives us a range of permissible behaviour patterns
·         Culture is diverse
·         Culture is ideational

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