CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Culture means a way of life of a particular group of people, at a particular period.

Detailed explanation-2: -Culture can be defined as all the ways of life including arts, beliefs and institutions of a population that are passed down from generation to generation. Culture has been called “the way of life for an entire society.” As such, it includes codes of manners, dress, language, religion, rituals, art.

Detailed explanation-3: -Anthropologist E.B. Taylor referred to Culture as “that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by a man as a member of society, ” a definition which Griswold notes is the “anthropological definition of culture” (Griswold 2012: 8).

Detailed explanation-4: -The major elements of culture are symbols, language, norms, values, and artifacts.

Detailed explanation-5: -The two basic types of culture are material culture, physical things produced by a society, and nonmaterial culture, intangible things produced by a society. Cars would be an example of American material culture, while our devotion to equality is part of our nonmaterial culture.