Difference between Culture and Civilization

1. PresentationTopic :
• Difference between Culture and
Civilization.
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2. • What is meant by
Culture?
The ideas, customs, and social
behaviour of a particular people
or society.
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3. • What is meant by
Civilization?
The society, culture, and
way of life of a particular
area.
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4. • Difference between Culture and
civilization:
Culture
• Culture is a termused to denote the manifestation of
the manner in which we think, behave and act.
• Culture represent what we are?
• Culture reflected in Religion, art, dance, literature.
• Culture can grow and exist without civilization.
• Culture is Higher level of inner refinement.
Civilization
• Civilization refers to the process through which a
region or society, outstretches an advanced stage
of human development and organization.
• Civilization represent what we have?
• Civilization reflected in Law, administration,
infrastructure.
• Civilization cannot grow and exist without culture.
• Civilization is Higher level of general
development.
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5. • Key differences between Culture and
Civilization
• Culture is an end; it has no measurement standards. As against this,
civilization has precise measurement standards, because it is a means.
• Culture denote the greatest level of inner refinement, and so it is internal.
Unlike, civilization which is external, i.e. it is the expression of state of the
art technology, product, devices, infrastructure and so forth.
• Change in culture is observed with time, as in the old thoughts and
traditions lost with the passage of time and new ones are added to it
which are then transmitted from one generation to another. On the flip
side, civilization is continuously advancing, i.e. the various elements of
civilization like means of transportation, communication, etc. are
developing day by day.
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6. Characteristics of Culture:
•Symbolic
•Learned
•Shared
•Dynamic
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7. • Symbolic:
Culture is based on symbols. A symbol is something that stands for
something else. Symbols vary cross-culturally and are arbitrary.They only
have meaning when people in a culture agree on their use. Language, money
and art are all symbols. Language is the most important symbolic
component of culture.
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8. • Learned:
• Culture is learned. It is not biological; we do not inherit it. Much of
learning culture is unconscious.We learn culture from families, peers,
institutions, and media.The process of learning culture is known
as enculturation.While all humans have basic biological needs such as
food, and sleep, the way we fulfil those needs varies cross-culturally.
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9. • Shared:
• Culture is shared. Because we share culture with other members of our
group, we are able to act in socially appropriate ways as well as predict
how others will act. Despite the shared nature of culture, that doesn’t
mean that culture is homogenous (the same).The multiple cultural worlds
that exist in any society are discussed in detail below.
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10. • Dynamic:
• Culture is dynamic.This simply means that cultures interact and change.
Because most cultures are in contact with other cultures, they exchange
ideas and symbols. All cultures change, otherwise, they would have
problems adapting to changing environments. And because cultures are
integrated, if one component in the system changes, it is likely that the
entire system must adjust.
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11. Characteristics of Civilization:
•Cities
•Government
•Religion
•Social Structure
•Writing
•Art
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12. • Advance Cities:
• As farmers settled in the fertile river valley, they began to grow surplus or
extra food.This extra food increased the population of the settlement that
led to the formation of cities. A city is a large group of people who live
together in a specific space. A city is usually a centre for trade, and city.
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13. • Government:
• A government with rules and way of voting or control Explanation:The
growing population of cities made government or a system of ruling
necessary. Leaders emerged to maintain order and establish laws.
Governments began to oversee the business or running and maintaining
the cities. All civilizations have a system of government to direct people’s
behaviour and make life orderly.They also make and enforce laws, collect
taxes, and protect its citizens.
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14. • Religion:
• A set of spiritual beliefs, values, and practices Explanation: Religious
leaders would conduct elaborate ceremonies to appease the gods and
insure a bountiful harvest. Floods and droughts were blamed on the gods’
anger so rituals were conducted in the temples.
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15. • Art:
• The arts and artwork of a thing, place, time, person, etc.; human
creations intended to express beauty and convey messages Architecture:
the buildings and style or architecture of a thing, place, time, person, etc.
Explanation: All civilizations have a highly developed culture including the
arts. Arts include creative forms of expression such as painting,
architecture, literature, and music.
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16. • Writing:
• The earliest writing was based on pictographs, that were used to
communicate basic information.
• Over time, the need for writing changed and cuneiform was developed.
• Cuneiform was the official Mesopotamia writing form.
• Mesopotamia scribes recorded daily events, trade. astronomy, and
literature on clay tablets.
• They kept excellent records and list of things.
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17. • Public Work:
• Structures, as roads, dams, or post offices, paid for by government funds
for public use. Explanation:The government would order these, although
costly to aid and benefit the community.
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18. • Relation between Culture and civilization:
• The culture is the activities of a person or societies and the civilization is the
manifestation of culture in multifarious ways.
• Civilization is a ocean while culture are the rivers which mixes to form
civilization.
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19. Peculiar Cultures:
• Kite Festival
• WaterThrowing Festival
• Tomatoes Festival
• Mexican Bullfight ( Called as Matador )
• Shandur Polo Festival
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20. Major Civilization:
• Ancient Greek
• Ancient Roman
• Chinese Civilization
• Arab
• Spanish
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