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difference between culture and socialisation

Answer 1

Socialization helps to shape and define our thoughts, feelings, and actions, and it provides us with a model for our behavior.As children become socialized, they learn how to fit into and to function as productive members of human society.Socialization teaches us the cultural values and norms that provide the guidelines for our everyday life.

Culture may be defined as the beliefs, values, behavior, and material objects shared by a particular group of people.Culture is a way of life that a number of people have in common.Our culture is reflected in what we wear to work, when and what we eat, and how we spend our leisure time.Culture provides theframework within which our lives become meaningful, based on standards of success, beauty, and goodness.Some cultures value competition, while others emphasize cooperation.Our culture affects virtually every aspect of our lives.Culture is not innate; human beings create culture.Culture consists of a set of principles and traditions transmitted from generation to generation, yet because human beings have created it, culture is flexible and subject to change.

Human culture is linked to the biological evolution of human beings.The creation of culture became possible only after the brain size of our early ancestors increased, enabling humans to construct their natural environment for themselves.Because human beings are creative by nature, they have developed diverse, or different, ways of life.

Cultural diversity is the result of geographical location, religious beliefs, and lifestyles.Culture is based on symbols, attaching significance to objects and patterns of behavior.Language is the most important expression of cultural symbolism.Sharing beliefs, thoughts, and feelings with others is the basis of culture, and language makes this possible.Language is also the most important means of cultural transmission.Language enables human beings to transmit culture not only in the present, but also from past to future generations. Language is probably the most powerful evidence of our humanity.According to two linguistic anthropologists, Edward Sapir and Benjamin Whorf, the language that we speak actually determines the reality that we experience.This Sapir-Whorf hypothesis states that we know the world only in terms of what our language provides, that language shapes culture as a whole.For example, while the English language has only one word for "snow," the Inuit language has different words that describe different types of snow.This occurs because distinguishing between, for example, falling snow and drifting snow is so important to the life of the Inuit.

While it may be true that language shapes culture, it is probably equally true that culture shapes language.For example, the increasing use of computers has led to new words and phrases in the language.Words such as "gigabyte" and "RAM" (random access memory), while commonplace in English today, did not exist 50 years ago.As more and more countries become technologically advanced, new words and phrases will also become part of their languages.So language and culture are interrelated, and changes in either one are likely to result in changes in the other

Answer 2

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