The document discusses the concept of culture at different levels - individual, family, society, and global. It explains that an individual's culture is shaped by factors like age, gender, education, experiences. A family's unique culture emerges from the blending of each member's individual culture over time. Similarly, a society's culture is developed from the common beliefs and practices of the families within it. Globalization is now leading to the exchange and blending of cultures worldwide as people connect virtually across borders.

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ESSAY: CULTURE
PRERNA CHOUHAN
M.ARCH SEM 1
Culture is the identity of a human or a group of human, the way we walk, talk, all
our actions and activities define our culture. Every individual has a certain behaviour
pattern distinguished from others, which is defined as his culture. Every family functions
differently, as per adjustments made by an individual thus forms a unique family culture.
For example, there is a family of 4 having a grandfather, father, mother and daughter.
Each individual will have a distinguished behaviour, the behaviour of his age group or
gender might influence. Collectively the family will behave in a certain way, forming their
culture and identity.
But the family's culture may distinguish with another family of 4 having the same
set of members. To elaborate further, we shall discuss the 1st family here. The
grandfather runs a workshop and is a free spirit in nature. Multiple things have
influenced his behaviour such as the era in which he grew up, the religion he followed,
the education he perceived, the financial situation of the house in which he grew up, the
places he visited and his work atmosphere. Whereas the father is extremely responsive
and his behaviour is mostly different from the grandfather, mainly because when he
grew up financial conditions were different, the education he perceived was different, he
visited more placed than the grandfather henceforth his thoughts were progressive. The
mother in the family came from another family in her early 20s so her behaviour and the

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Manner of doing activities were different. Her belief system was unique and highly
influenced by the society she grew up in. Collectively with time, these set of 3 different
people gelled up with each other forming their own family culture, the common things
they have also influenced their cultures such as religious beliefs, language and clothing.
Welcoming the 4th member of the family the daughter. The individual culture of the
daughter is more vibrant as being the last one added to the family she has exposure to
all other individual behaviours and also influenced by a set of people she met and the
set of places she visited. Collecting all these individuals forms a family which behaves
in a certain way, such as this one is humble, little progressive celebrates one religion
and it’s festivities. Whereas the other family is regressive, humble and celebrates the
same religion and its festivities.
Culture of the family as we learnt is developed by the set forms a family of
individuals culture of family members similarly the culture of society is developed by the
collective and common beliefs of families which lives in that society. For example, one
society may comprise 10 families and out of 10, 8 follows one religion. The culture of
that society will be more influenced by that one common religion, the decoration of all
festivities even of the other religion might get influenced by the common ones. Other
than religion, the common language of families and clothing styles forms their unique
identity henceforth defines their culture. Common Activities performed by the families
or set of individuals from various age groups also built the culture of that society.
Surroundings of the society, geographical conditions, climate also play a vital
role in culture building. For example, if we talk about a society that lives in the coastal
area, they might prefer more benign outdoors as the climate and surroundings
encourage that, henceforth, their culture might look more vibrant and visible to
outsiders. Whereas, if we talk about society is in a freezing region of this planet, the
culture of that society might seem conservative or dull to an outsider, as most of their
activities will happen in the comfort of indoors.

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Culture is also majorly defined by the activities of a group of individuals, such as
IT world culture, where people come to sit under one roof and work on fixed hours while
sitting next to screens all day long, whereas in crafts work culture, craft workers prefer
isolation and experience nature and generate their craft by igniting their creativity. There
is also a labour work culture where a set of people work collectively in teams to create
something with their hard work.
Architecture and urban planning also influence cultures, as in cities having cal-de
-sac planing a group culture is formed, where a set of houses placed around one green
patch comes together to celebrate in their intimate society, similarly in gated societies.
The way we plan the market places, we plan recreational zones to influence the locals
to perform activities in a unique way of henceforth forming their unique culture.
How to depict culture? We observe culture by observing clothing, or ornaments,
as these are the visible symbols of culture. The non-tangible elements of culture are
such as behaviour towards a situation that is generally influenced by the culture
individual lives in. Culture is also depicted by the food a group prefers to eat, such as
Chinese People eat more raw meat and seafood, whereas most Indians prefer
vegetarian food. Music, the form of dance, language, history, strongly symbolises and
influence culture.
Culture can be of an individual, of a group, of a region, of a city, of the country or
even of a planet. We are searching for life on other planets, if we find another
humankind on another planet their culture will depict their way of life and visa-verse
In today’s world of globalisation, we are experiencing a cultural exchange, where
we see foreigners following Krishna and Bhagwat Geeta and Indians following western
culture. Also, there is a wave of global culture, which is driven by technological
advancements and research for life beyond earth. People are connecting globally by

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Virtual means and like-minded communities are forming up which will create a new
unique culture. To conclude, I would say culture is the way of living life, we categories a
set of people forming communities having a common way of living life, and then we
name it as a particular culture. For example - people following the Isha Foundation or
Radha swami group depict their culture as they share the same belief system and prefer
to live life commonly.