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Define culture according to sociology

      

Define culture according to sociology

  

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Lellah
It is a distinctive way of life of a people and comparing it to other societies would be futile.
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Derived from a German word “Kulture” which means ‘civilization’.
- Culture is defined as the complex whole which includes knowledge, beliefs, art, morals, laws,
customs and the capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of the society. (Edward Reuter
1950).
- Culture is the realm of ideas and ideas, values and symbols; it is the design for living which produces a distinctive way of life. (Kluckhon, 1951).
- Bronslow Malinowski, British Anthropologist [1933] Culture comprises of inherited artifacts, goods, technical processes, ideas, habits and values. It is obviously the integral whole consisting of implements of consumer goods, of human ideas and crafts, beliefs and customs.
- Unfortunately;
Those sociologists argued that culture was universal and that societies evolved from savagery to civilization e.g. Tyler said “By simply putting the advanced nations at one end of the social series, and savage tribes at the other end, arranging the rest of mankind between these limits, ethnographers are able to set up at best a rough scale of civilization: A transition from a savage state to our own civilized.
Savage Civilized
- According to this argument, Western societies were seen as advanced, civilized and served as a yardstick upon which other societies were compared.
- Franz Boaz advanced a more liberal view (more objective) of culture; individual societies each have
their own body of customs, beliefs and social institutions.
- Culture is therefore a distinctive way of life of a people and comparing it to other societies would be futile.
- Culture is both material and non-material.
Lellah answered the question on July 6, 2021 at 06:24


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