Question

Explain the meaning of culture and describe its important features.

Answer 1

Culture refers to widely shared customs, believes, values, norms, institutions and other products of a community that are transmitted socially across generation.

• Culture refers to 'the man made part of the environment.

• Culture may be defined as a shared way of life of a group of socially interacting people and is transmitted from generation through socialization and related process.

Important features of culture are following: 

• Culture includes behavioural products of others who preceded us. It indicates both substantial and abstract particulars that have prior existence in one form or another.

• It contains values that will be expressed and a language in which to express them.

• Culture characterized by sharing reflects presence and experience of cultural attributes  psychologically. 

• Cultural involves transmission of learned behaviour from one generation to the other within a community.

Culture refers to widely shared customs, believes, values, norms, institutions and other products of a community that are transmitted socially across generation.