This document discusses various aspects of culture including: - Definitions of culture from anthropologists EB Taylor and CC North. - The nature of culture as learned, transmitted, social, adaptive, and dynamic. - The components of culture including symbols, language, values, customs, and laws. - The evolution and diversity of culture as well as factors leading to cultural uniformity. - The role of culture and socialization in shaping human behavior. - How culture spreads between societies and influences aspects of health and disease.

1. LARAIB KIRAN
H1F18MSCT0020
UNIVERSITY OF
CENTRAL PUNJAB
HFD

3. • 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

31. Practice of bad habits
This cause for oral cancer

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