Question

Explain culture and discuss its factor and characteristics

Answer 1

Definition of Culture:

There is no one definition of culture nor there is unanimity among various thinkers. Mr. A.L. Korelaber and T. Parsons in an article on the Concepts of Culture and of Social Systems American Sociological Review has defined culture as “a complex of values, ideas, attitudes, and other meaningful symbols created by a man to shape human behaviour and the anti facts of that behaviour as they are transmitted from one generation to the next”.

According to another author “culture refers to a set of values, ideas, anti facts, and other meaningful symbols that help individuals communicate, interpret, and evaluate as members of society”. Another writer feels that “culture is a set of socially acquired values that society accepts as a whole and transmits to its members through language, and symbols”. The culture may also be defined as “the largest simple grouping of people sharing a distinctly unique social heritage

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