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INDIAN SOCIETY

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Features of Indian Rural  Society The village social life has its own peculiar characteristics. The village social life norms strengthen the authoritarian and hierarchical norms in administration.  The village social life, which is based on the hierarchical exchange relations greatly influence the behavior of civil servants in public organizations . Usually, a village has less than five thousand individuals. It is rightly said ‘India is a country of villages’. Agriculture is the main occupation of the Indians and majority of people in India live in the villages.  Our villages help in strengthening our social bonds and bringing stability to our society in many ways.  Our villages also help our society in preserving our culture. The Indian rural society has undergone considerable change particularly since the Independence as a result of a series of the land reform legislations that have accelerated the pace of this change. These rural societies have their own

Cultural Diffusion

Culture and Society Defined Culture is the set of beliefs, ideas, norms of activities, art, and knowledge, which are collectively shared and practiced by a group of people who live in a geographical area, at a particular time. Owing to varied factors, when a culture spreads and overlaps with other cultures, we then term it as the process of diffusion.  Cultural diffusion is the intermingling of one or more cultures. It is the outcome of the spread of literacy and education, inter-country trade relations, technological development, and religious interventions. it can be sought in several realms, like social, political, religious, intellectual, technological, and economical realms. The world is a global village, more so because of the political and trade relations that exist across nations, despite the geographical hindrances. The formation of treaties like SAARC, EU, NAFTA, etc.,   The urge to be well educated has prompted many young minds to change places and t

Meaning of Culture & it Characteristics,

Culture is  the traditions and customs of  the  members of the society because of   which are common  and are passed down from generation to generation through the process of socialisation.  the specific behaviour pattern of human beings in their social relations is called culture. Cultural ideas emerge from shared social life.  The culture includes  The customs, traditions, attitudes, values, norms, ideas and symbols govern human behaviour pattern. . Meaning of Culture : Culture is identified with aesthetics or the fine arts such as dance, music or drama. This is also different from the technical meaning of the word culture. Culture is used in a special sense in anthropology and sociology. It refers to the sum of human beings’ life ways, their behaviour, beliefs, feelings, thought; it connotes everything that is acquired by them as social beings. Culture has been defined in number of ways.  One of the most comprehensive definitions of the term culture was provided by the Br

Culture

SOME DEFINITIONS Culture refer s to the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving. Culture is the systems of knowledge shared by a relatively large group of people. Culture is communication, communication is culture. Culture in its broadest sense is cultivated behavior; that is the totality of a person's learned, accumulated experience which is socially transmitted, or more briefly, behavior through social learning. A culture is a way of life of a group of people--the behaviors, beliefs, values, and symbols that they accept, generally without thinking about them, and that are passed along by communication and imitation from one generation to the next. Culture is symbolic communication. Some of its s