The document discusses various aspects of culture and people around the world. It provides statistics showing the sizes of major world religions, with Islam being the largest at 31.5%. It also describes different cultures and languages that exist in India, the largest democracy in the world, and some of the major cultural events celebrated in India, such as Diwali, Holi, and Onam. The document also discusses the sociological study of culture and how it has developed over time.

2. PEOPLE
 A group of indefinite members are called by people.
 It also means that a people sharing a common religion, culture, language.
 Adherent estimates
 Adherents.com says "Sizes shown are approximate estimates, and are here
mainly for the purpose of ordering the groups, not providing a definitive
number".
 Size of Major Religious Groups in the World as on 2012 are :-
 Religion Percent
 Islam 31.5%
 Unaffiliated 23.2%
 Hinduism 16.3%
 Buddhism * 15.0%
 Folk 7.1%
 Other 5.9%
 Judaism 0.8%
Reference : Pew Research Center, 2012 0.2%

3. CULTURE
 Culture means that a whole complex which includes
knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom and any
other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a
member of society. As another option Culture is
defined as a social domain that emphasizes the
practices, discourses, and material expressions, which,
over time, express the continuities and discontinuities
of social meaning of a life held in common.
 In our world peoples are living with different culture.
For example in India the people are living with the
following cultures :-

4.  The culture of India is the way of living of the people
of India.
India's languages, religions, dance, music (often
developed for specific dances), architecture, food, and
customs differs from place to place within the country.
The Indian culture, often labeled as an amalgamation
of several cultures, spans across the India
subcontinent and has been influenced by a history
that is several millennia old. Many elements of India's
diverse cultures, such as Indian religions, Indian
philosophy and Indian cuisine, have had a profound
impact across the world.

5. Language
 Different languages are being used by different people in the
world. For example in our Country almost 15 languages are
used by our people as under:-
 TAMIL
 KANNADA
 MARATHI
 URDU
 BENGALI
 MALAYALAM
 ORIYA
 ASSAMEES
 TELUGU
 HINDI
 BOJPURI
 MANIPURI
 PUNJABI
 GUJRATI
 KONGINI

6. CULTURAL EVENTS
 To commomorate with the tradition of our country following major
festival events are being celebrated:-
Festival State Month
Pongal Tamil Nadu January
Maha shivathri Entire country February
Holi North india March
Bihu/vishu/good friday Assam/Kerala/
International
April
Raksha
Bandhan/Janmashtami
North India August
Onam Kerala Septembar
Depavali Entire North
India/Tamil
Nadu
October
Gurunanak birthday Punjab November
Christmas International December

7. English Romanticism
 In the 19th century, humanists such as English poet and
essayist Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) used the word "culture" to refer
to an ideal of individual human refinement, of "the best that has been
thought and said in the world." This concept of culture is comparable to
the German concept of bildung: "...culture being a pursuit of our
total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which
most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the
world.
 Sociology
 The sociology of culture concerns culture—usually understood as the
ensemble of symbolic codes used by a society—as manifested in
society. For Georg Simmel, culture referred to "the cultivation of
individuals through the agency of external forms which have been
objectified in the course of history"

8. Early researchers and development of cultural sociology
 The sociology of culture grew from the intersection between
sociology (as shaped by early theorists like Marx, Durkheim, and
Weber) with the growing discipline of anthropology, where in
researchers pioneered ethnographic strategies for describing and
analyzing a variety of cultures around the world. Part of the legacy
of the early development of the field lingers in the methods (much
of cultural sociological research is qualitative), in the theories (a
variety of critical approaches to sociology are central to current
research communities), and in the substantive focus of the field. For
instance, relationships between popular culture, political control,
and social class were early and lasting concerns in the field.
 Cultural studies
 In the United Kingdom, sociologists and other scholars influenced
by Marxism, such as Stuart Hall and Raymond
Williams developed cultural studies. Following nineteenth-century
Romantics, they identified "culture" with consumption goods and
leisure activities (such as art, music, film, food, sports, and clothing).
Nevertheless, they saw patterns of consumption and leisure as
determined by relations of production, which led them to focus on
class relations and the organization of production.

9. Indian culture
 The culture of India is the way of living of the people
of India.
India's languages, religions, dance, music (often
developed for specific dances), architecture, food, and
customs differs from place to place within the country.
The Indian culture, often labeled as an amalgamation
of several cultures, spans across the Indian
subcontinent and has been influenced by a history
that is several millennia old. Many elements of India's
diverse cultures, such as Indian religions, Indian
philosophy and Indian cuisine, have had a profound
impact across the world.

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