CULTURE

https://goo.gl/qgDZoL

In my opinion culture has various meaning. Culture indicate identity of society. You can know what they believe what routine they do by looking through culture. Some people jude some society that they have civilisation or uncivilization by their culture. Culture is “sets of traditions, rules, symbols that shape and are enacted as feelings, thoughts, and behaviors of groups of people” (Giddens, 2005).  It passes from generation to generation and highly impacts to human behavior which helps distinguishing societies (Giddens, 2005). For instance, in some society, most of the people drink coffee as a culture without concerning the caffeine level in the coffee. Also, two people who meet “to have coffee” together are probably more interested in meeting and chatting than in what they drink (Crossman, 2016). Another example can be seen from the marriage and divorce that people think that it involves only two persons. However, the divorce might affect a wider society such that the children might be abandoned. Moreover, in Buddhist society, people usually  buy fish and set it free in to the river as a way of making merit without knowing that it is not the right habitat for them. Plus, this supports the seller to catch more fish out of the catching season.  

Reference

• Giddens, A. (2005). Sociology. Cambridge: Polity.
• Crossman, A. (2016). The Sociological Imagination. Sociology.about.com. Retrieved 21 August 2016, from http://sociology.about.com/od/Works/a/Sociological-Imagination.htm