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Culture
Learning Objectives
- Nature, characteristic and evolution of culture
- Diversity and uniformity of culture
- Difference between culture and civilization
- Culture and socialization
- Transcultural society
- Culture, Modernization and its impact on health and disease
1. INTRODUCTION
Culture is a basic concept in sociology and anthropology because it is what makes humans unique in the animal kingdom. Man is an animal with culture. Human social structure, from the simplest family to the most complex corporations, depends on culture for its existence. Societies cannot exist without cultures. However, the two are not the same thing. Culture consists of commonly accepted and expected ideas, attitudes, values, and habits of the individuals, ...
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