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Culture and Socialisation

Madhya Pradesh Board · Class 11 · Sociology

Summary of Culture and Socialisation for Madhya Pradesh Board Class 11 Sociology. Key concepts, important points, and chapter overview.

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Overview

Culture is the shared way of life of a society. It includes knowledge, beliefs, art, morals, laws, customs, habits, tools, and meanings that people learn through social interaction. Socialisation is the process through which a helpless infant gradually becomes a self-aware person who understands the

Key Concepts

Culture is the common understanding learned

Culture is the common understanding learned through social interaction. It includes both material elements such as tools and machines and non-material

Tylor defined culture as a complex

Tylor defined culture as a complex whole that includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and other capabilities and habits acquired as a me

Malinowski defined culture as inherited artifacts

Malinowski defined culture as inherited artifacts, goods, technical process, ideas, habits, and values. His definition includes material as well as no

Geertz described human beings as living

Geertz described human beings as living in webs of significance and treated culture as those webs. He emphasised interpretation and meaning rather tha

Culture has cognitive

Culture has cognitive, normative, and material dimensions. Cognitive culture refers to meaning-making, normative culture refers to rules of conduct, a

Learning Objectives

  • Define culture in sociological terms
  • Distinguish between material and non-material dimensions of culture
  • Explain cognitive, normative, and material aspects of culture
  • Understand how culture changes through evolutionary and revolutionary change
  • Describe socialisation as a lifelong process

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